ARTIST’S STATEMENT
I came to photography by way of painting and my work as a designer of home accessories. Much of what I learned and found of interest in those experiences is reflected in my photographs. It was when I was writing Yes/No Design, a book on interior decorating, a few years ago, that I first worked professionally as a photographer.

What interests me most about photography is light and its transforming properties. Whatever I am photographing, be it a bridge, building, tree, or piece of fruit it is the way the light falls on the subject and brings out its character that intrigues me. When I work outside I usually choose times when the light conditions are extreme: dawn, dusk, night. Working in the studio, I use artificial light to highlight the characteristic of the object I think is most revealing.

In the seclusion of the darkroom I coax out of the negative the sense of space, texture and light that first captured my imagination. Here light is used very differently; it is the amount and intensity of the light from the enlarger on the photographic paper and then the chemistry that determine the final photograph.

This cycle, first capturing the image in the camera then printing it in the darkroom, is what fascinates me and keeps me searching for the light and its effect.

D I A N E L O V E
PHOTOGRAPHY RESUME2004- VISITING ARTIST AMERICAN ACADEMY IN ROME-
subject photographed “The Light of Rome”
REPRESENTATION:
Staley Wise Gallery- ManhattanPERMANENT CORPORATE COLLECTIONS AND EXHIBITIONS:
2003- CENTRL PARK CONSERVANCY-
2002- BEAR STEARNS- corporate offices Madison Avenue
2003- MERIDIAN CAPITAL PARTNERS- corporate officesEXHIBITIONS:
2003- MOVIEHOUSE STUDIO GALLERY, Millerton, N.Y.
2003- INTERNATIONAL LONGEVITY CENTER, USA- New York City
2002-2003- SKH Gallery- Great Barrington, Mass
2001- ART PLACEMENT INTERNATIONAL- Merrill LynchPUBLICATIONS:
2001- HOMESTYLE MAGAZINE- contributing photographer and editor
2001- ARTS AND ANTIQUES- photographs in October 2001 issue
2000- YES/NO DESIGN- Rizzoli – photographer and writer- English edition
2000- JE EIGEN WOONSTIJL- Terra- photographer and writer- Dutch edition

1999- CREEZ VOTRE STYLE- Flammarion- photographer and writer-French edition Diane Love came to photography via painting and her life as a painter is everywhere evident in her work. In her hands the camera takes on the sensuousness of the artist’s brush. Other times, she wields it as if it were a stick of charcoal giving the surface of her photographs the textural quality of a drawing. Her blacks are dense and velvety, her grays sumptuous and seemingly lit from within, as seen in Pulver’s Stand, a copse of bare winter trees Love photographed early one morning in the Tri State area of New York.

Light and the texture it evokes are, she confesses, her twin passions. Early morning and dusk are the two times of day she is most likely to be seen stalking with her camera. She says, “ It’s at these times the sunlight captures the particles if moisture and dust in the air. This glancing light dramatizes the familiar and gives it an ethereal quality.”

Love also likes to photograph at night, and her nighttime photographs of Manhattan dazzle and seduce. Born and raised in Manhattan, she clearly knows where and how to look for its beauty. Central Park on a snowy January night, Fourth of July fireworks on the East River, a view of the skyline along Central Park South, as seen from the roof of a friend’s West Side apartment on New Year’s Eve, these are just a few of her nighttime subjects. Never, not even in the hands of an early photography master like Alfred Stieglitz, has the city seemed more magical, more glamorous, or, in the cases of the fireworks, ethereal.

REVIEW IN COUNTRY AND ABROAD BY SUZANNE LOGAN