Jon Goell Photography - Galleries - Portraits

Blue Chris Two 2008
Created for the themed Montgomery College exhibit, "Rythm & Blue". The model is Christie Feral, my wife.

Blue Chris Two 2008
Created for the themed Montgomery College exhibit, "Rythm & Blue". The model is Christie Feral, my wife.

Walker Evans, Photographer, 1971
Walker Evans, photographed at my studio during an interview for the Boston Globe.

Walker Evans, Photographer 1971
Walker Evans taken at Goell Studio 1971 during an interview session for the Boston Globe. Rare image of Evans smiling. We became friends during his last years. Opinionated as ever, he was a lot of fun to be around, and very challenging.

Walker Evans 1971
Restored SX-70 Polaroid.

Yo-Yo Ma 1989, Cellist
Taken for Bostonia Magazine. Mr. Ma was a delight to work with.

Don Rose, then-CEO, Rykodisc Corp., Boston 1991.
Non-digital in-camera effects with multiple exposures. For Boston Magazine.

Amar Bose with the first Bose Wave, Boston 1989
Magazine assignment

Paul Strand, Photographer, Orgeval, France 1973.
From a restored Polaroid SX-70 print. Paul Strand was a great modern American photographer who was mentored by Louis Hine and Alfred Steiglitz early in the last century. He influenced formalist landscape photographers to come, as well as street photographers, with his groundbreaking work. As a then-photo critic for the Boston Globe, I got to interview him at length at his home near Paris.

Model Pauses 1975
Restored SX-70 Polaroid.

Kermit Goell 1980
My father, a songwriter and a bon vivant.

Family, Samsat, Turkey 1970
In 1970 I was an archeological potographer on a Hittite site in Samsat, Turkey, near Nemrud Dagh. This was a family of one of the workers, captured on Polaroid 4x5 inch black and white film. Funny how things happen: the laughing girl was too dark to see in the original. I didn't notice her until I scanned the print in 2007 - and she makes the image work!

Kurdish bride, 14 years. Samsat, Turkey 1970.
When I worked as an archeological photographer in Turkey, the village schoolteacher and translator for the dig asked me to photography his arranged bride for her family. She was terrified.

Azziz (right) and crew, Samsat, Turkey 1970
Image restored from damaged 4x5 inch Polaroid print.

Lou Jones, Photographer 2004
One of America's best and busiest photographers

Frank and Lynette Siteman.
Frank is a great photographer and one of my oldest friends.

Leigh Agniel and Laurent Souerwein, Paris 2004
Leigh writes beautiful children's books, and Laurent is an artist and photographer. They were my classmates at the American College in Paris in 1964.

Paul Sousa, designer, 1980
Restored Polaroid pack film print.

Self Portrait 1978
Restored Polaroid print.

MIT scientists debunking the "Cold Fusion" theory.
Taken for Boston Magazine in 1989, this was a lot of fun to work on.

Jon & Chris & Jon 1980
Polaroid double exposure. In the center, my wife Christie Wenger Feral.

Self-portrait, Polaroid, 1973
Restored Polaroid B&W print.