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Parasol with Red Berries, Paul Cary Goldberg, Giclee-Iris print on cotton rag paper

Massachusetts-based still life photographer Paul Cary Goldberg creates images that have impressed critics across the country. Helen Harrison of the New York Times wrote, “Goldberg’s arrangements are just flat out gorgeous.” William Zimmer, also of the Times, has noted a distinct Vermeer-like quality in the richly detailed color imagery of his prints. Cate McQuaid of the Boston Globe has labeled Goldberg a “standout.”

The Giclee process that Goldberg uses is named for the French verb gicler, to squirt. This “squirting” is done by an Iris printer, which prints one million drops of ink per second on to (in Goldberg’s case) cotton rag paper from a scanned digital image of a transparency that Goldberg shoots with low-grain Fuji Velvia film.

The cover image Parasol with Red Berries is from Goldberg’s series “Objects of My Affection” and was photographed using only natural light in a studio setting.

Goldberg’s work is held in various public and private collections, and he has exhibited in solo and group shows across the us. Goldberg will be exhibiting in a group show at Gordon College in Wenham, ma in February. Goldberg has also been awarded a solo exhibition at the Print Center in Philadelphia in November.