About Max Stern
About Max Stern
“I have been taking pictures most of my life. I owe my relationship with the camera to my father; bypassing the Brownie, he taught me technique, production, composition, foresight and artistry. These are skills that I would eventually put to good use as a trial lawyer, which for three decades has been my “real” job. And vice versa. A photographer friend once remarked that the only thing a photographer adds to reality is a unique point of view - what he or she chooses to shoot, how she situates the lens, or crops the image. One's photographs reflect who he is. Not surprisingly, perhaps, my favorite images resemble circumstantial evidence in a trial: they depict the artifacts of human circumstance -- things made or left behind, to be decoded by later witnesses to the scene. To this each viewer brings his own intelligence and imagination, decoding the mystery of what just happened or will happen, or perhaps leaving suspended and unresolved the still moment captured by the camera. Light, color and shading are the adjectives in these phrases; the action verbs are the objects of human design.”
Max Stern is a graduate of Dartmouth College and the University of Pennsylvania Law School. His work has been exhibited at numerous venues in Boston, Martha’s Vineyard, and Vermont. He is an artist member of the Copley Society of Art. He also practices law at the Boston firm of Todd & Weld, LLP (www.toddweld.com). He resides in Jamaica Plain, MA.
