TIMELESS BEAUTY
UNSEEN REALITIES
VINCENT VALLARINO
PHOTOGRAPHS OVER 50 YEARS
NOVEMBER 25TH - FEBRUARY 28TH, 2026
UNSEEN REALITIES TIMELESS BEAUTY
In the late 1960s and early 1970s I was privileged to have studied with photographer Minor White for several years. He would tell me, “It’ s not what it is but what else it is.” It took me many years to understand the depth of these simple words. He instilled in me the ability to trust and follow my intuition, which took me to places I never imagined I could go. With my 8 x 10 view camera in hand, I slowly learned to capture what occurred on these intuitive journeys. I gradually became a consummate craftsman which enabled me an uninterrupted flow while photographing. A new door had opened for me and photography became second nature.
My focus has always been on beauty and form. The detail that my large negatives depict allows the reality of my subjects to form a super-realism that otherwise is unseen. Capturing reality in its simplest form is pure abstraction. Through my photographs I attempt to rearrange abstractions into an unrestrained sequence of mental images that become the essence of fantasy.
The following pages contain a group of photographs taken over a 55-year period. They are entities unto themselves that embody my personal dreams of my own fantasy reality and how I view the world.
Vincent Vallarino Millbrook, New York
Calla #3, 1972, Millerton, New York
Luxembourg Woods #2, 1974, Fishbach, Luxembourg
“ Flowers act as a powerful subject, allowing one’s intuition to run wild while being drawn into their seductive abstract aura.”
Peony #2, 1993, Millbrook, New York
“Landscapes are abstractions of an unseen reality and photography is the only medium that can reveal that reality after the print exits the darkroom.”
Ship Rock, 2011, Navajo Nation, San Juan County, New Mexico
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Photography used properly is pure passion and revelation.”
Calla #2, 1972, Millerton, New York
Floating Rock, 1970, Inn Unique, Crawford Notch, New Hampshire
“ Whenever distracted by the chaos surrounding nature, I’ve always zeroed in on the emerging detail of the simplest form, creating the purest abstraction.”
Calla #5, 1971, Conway, New Hampshire
“The most difficult approach to photography is through realism.”
Italy
Civita di Bagnoregio, 1969,
Floating Poppies, 1992, Millbrook, New York
Calla and Poppy, 1987, Millbrook, New York
“For me, my attraction to nature and its forms is an inexhaustible source of inspiration.”
Landscape in Time, 1969, Diana's Bath, New Hampshire
Two Floating Callas, 1990, Millbrook, New York
Vertical Calla Bud with Leaf, 1991, Millbrook, New York
“Beauty appears when one has great respect for one’s subject and photographs it for what it is and not who you are.”
Luxmbourg Woods, #3, 1974, Fishbach, Luxembourg
Calla #5, 1972, Millerton, New York
Calla#11, 1972, Millerton, New York
“Nature has all the abstract and simplified forms that any artist could imagine.”
Luxembourg
Fishbach Woods, 1974, Fishbach,
“Creating form and its revelation is the nucleus of my photography. Bringing it to life is a driving force that comes from within.”
Peony #1, 1993, Millbrook, New York
Calla Lotus, 1990, Millbrook, New York
Calla Bud with Stalks, 1989, Millbrook, New York
“Visualizing beauty and form are nothing if not sensually motivated.”
African Daisy #1, 1971, Conway, New Hampshire
Audubon Center #2, 1972, Sharon, Connecticut
(Opposite) Audubon Center #1, 1972, Sharon, Connecticut
“Nature choreographs both composition and movement creating a ballet of trees with their lines in time, vanishing in depth.”
Luxembourg Woods #1, 1974, Fishbach, Luxembourg
Electric Rocks, 1976, Kennebunkport, Maine
Cypress Point, 2004, Point Lobos Carmel, California
Two Callas Touching, 1989, Millbrook, New York (Opposite) Calla #10, 1971, Conway, New Hampshire
“Self-invention begins with allowing your intuitive flow to take you to places you never dreamed of arriving. Only then do you begin to reveal yourself to yourself.”
Eruption Over Heimaey, 1974, Westman Islands, Iceland
Nasturtium Leaf #1, 1970, Conway, New Hampshire
Clematis in a Chinese Bowl, 1992, Millbrook, New York
Calla #6, 1971, Conway, New Hampshire