DAVID MARLIN – SINGLE FIGURE
2020-04-20The news stories and famous faces that I photographed number in the thousands. I had a front row seat on life itself. I covered the great and near great, and the homeless eating out of dumpsters. I filmed kings and queens, presidents, and princes of the church. I recorded militants and pacifists, and great revelations in medicine. My camera and I were witness to the wise counsel of the experts of our time. I had a great passion for covering television news during the journalistically exciting period of the 50’s through the 80’s, a time that produced a constant flood of headline stories. You never knew what the next phone call would bring.
However, artists, sculptors, photographers, and other creators of art, can hold their work in their hands or stand back and behold it with their eyes. That’s not the case for a photojournalist or producer of television news. Our work is so fleeting. Unless it is a story of a very unusual news event that gets played over and over, once the film or tape runs on the news-it’s gone forever. Great effort and creativity vanishes, for the most part never to be seen again-only remembered. Knowing this motivated me, if possible, to try and capture the essence of the moment with my still camera.
Exhibition runs through to June 7th, 2020
Griffin Museum of Photography
67 Shore Road
Winchester
MA 01890
