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Artist Statement:
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Artist Galleries:
Volakis Gallery, Yountville
CA, 707-945-1125
Andrew Smith Gallery, Santa
Fe, NM, 505-984-1234
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Collections:
Di Rosa Preserve, Napa, CA
Judy Estrin, private
collection, Los Altos, CA
Michelle Eagan, private
collection, San Francisco, CA
Peggy Haas, private
collection, San Francisco, CA
Dr. David Diskin, private
collection, Birmingham, MI
Dr. Laura Falduto, Phd,
private collection,
Scottsdale, AZ
Phillip Dunn, VP, Wachovia
Securities, Armonk, NY
David Skover, ...
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Commissions:
Villagio Inn and Estates,
Yountville, California, USA
Bank of Napa, Napa Valley,
California, USA
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Reviews for Emanuel Dimitri Volakis:
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Master of Light & Shadow
I first encountered the magical black and white images of Emanuel Volakis at an outdoor exhibition on a steamy summer day in Madison, Wisconsin. I stood transfixed, all awareness of haze and heat vanished from my memory, gazing at photographs that captured for all eternity the timeless essence of their subjects, an instant of life and art preserved for all to see.
There it was, the Medici Fountain of the Luxembourg Gardens in Paris, sinewy sculpture and glistening water, presented in seemingly infinite shades of gray, offered in complex and exacting detail, luminosity on paper, drawing me in, a magnet for my eyes, making me feel a part of the scene, my eyes moving from aspect to aspect, eager to absorb every element, no matter how small. I was back in Paris, quintessentially Parisian, forever and ever.
Next to it was a village street, somewhere in France, silent and empty but for a tiny cat caught frozen and surprised in the middle of the road, staring fixedly at me, daring me to gaze back, another moment caught at just the perfect instant. It was as if the photographer had waited patiently for hours and hours, days and days, in the manner of Henri Cartier Bresson, for that fraction of a second when everything was right, when he could click the shutter and create a scene, a composition, to reflect the core of the photographer’s art.
They were all like that, whatever the subject – parks in their statuesque and leafy beauty, statues in their marble solidity, faces in their basic yet fleeting humanity. France, Italy, Spain, California, New York, wherever Emanuel Volakis goes, wherever he takes his camera, he finds and portrays the splendor, the imagination, the breath of existence. He is that rare photographer, a master of light and shadow, of subtlety and precision. He creates, gives form and meaning to, life.
I never get tired of looking at his art, and I expect I never will.
Mervyn Rothstein
contributing writer for Cigar Aficionado, Wine Spectator, Playbill, The New York Times and other international publications
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