John Goodman

“Few contemporary photographers have enjoyed such a protean career or moved with such ease between the worlds of commerce and art. Goodman’s world is one in which opposition become dualities; neither can exist without the other.
It’s a duality we also find in his syntax and sequences of light and shadow, grit and delicacy, focus and blur, motion and stilled time.” – Bonnell Robinson, Director of Exhibitions, Art Institute of Boston.

John’s energy and enthusiasm for making things happen is what continually drives his photography. His photographs testify to his desire and ability to connect with what is vital as he responds to and reads his subject’s signs and gestures in a manner that brings about the unexpected. “Goodman’s… skill at capturing what may be called aesthetic sympathy is riveting…his intention is to make us feel, and not merely see…” – Joyce Carol Oates on John’s book, The Times Square Gym.

John’s work is in the permanent collections of the Metropolitan Museum of Art/NYC, MFA/Boston, SF/Moma and Art Institute of Chicago. He has shot campaigns for Ungaro, Gucci and The Gap and his editorial work has recently appeared in the New York Times Play Magazine and Conde Nast Portfolio. John is represented by Michael Hoppen Gallery in London, Howard Yezerski in Boston and is on the faculty at the Art Institute of Boston.