Following a heart attack in February 2017, Lumiere Photo founder Bill Edwards came to the grim conclusion that he had to close up shop in the end of March. Lumiere remained partially operational for months while Edwards focused on healing and discussed selling the business to potential buyers. Throughout 2017 Lumiere still offered digital printing […]
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With mixed emotions, Bill Edwards closes Lumiere
Health issues forced Lumiere Photo owner Bill Edwards to close up shop, but the business may yet have a future
Bright earth
A show of 18 luminous, unabashedly joyful paintings by Jay Pullman is on view at Lumiere Photo’s Spectrum Gallery through Saturday, November 28. The lovely work depicts all four glorious seasons, and even the snowy scenes are cheerful enough to quell some of my dread of the impending winter. The small paintings mostly portray the […]
ART REVIEW: “Transmutations: Photographic Works by Carl Chiarenza”
Of the transmission of experience through art, poet Robert Frost wrote, “No tears in the writer, no tears in the reader. No surprise in the writer, no surprise in the reader.” Though renowned photographer Carl Chiarenza creates abstract works that are purposefully open to viewers’ interpretations, the crystallized emotional experience of the artist is present […]






