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Before the El Came Down: Photographs by John Woolf features vibrant digital photographs of the El taken on a single night just weeks before its demolition. “I wasn’t able to get back to North Station until a few weeks later,” Woolf recalled about his process after that night.
John Woolf has built up years of experience in photography, but every great artist is inspired by someone. In John’s case, it was his older cousin in New York – a photographer and member of a photo club – who sparked his interest in the field.
© John Woolf 2006
Here are some highlights from the opening reception for our new exhibit, Before the El Came Down: Photographs by John Woolf. John Woolf's stunning "color fil...
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- The West End Museum Boston, MA
John Woolf has spent more than two decades photographing Mount Auburn Cemetery. He appreciates Mount Auburn as an arboretum and place of tranquility. “For years,” he adds, “I have photographed sculpture and architecture, and I have always been drawn to 19th-century iconography of death.
© 2006 John Woolf Photography
Feb 5, 2021 · John Woolf has worked as a photographic artist for more than forty years. His photographs of Boston’s Chinatown and diners in the Northeast are part of his effort to document the transformation of the American urban architectural landscape and the fast disappearing twentieth-century roadside architecture of the Northeast industrial corridor.
