‘Anything that catches my eye’

From Gary Duehr’s show “People, Places, Things,’’ at Bromfield Gallery, Boston, Nov. 5-30.

He says:

“This retrospective skims across several decades of making photos, from People on the streets and squeezed into elevators; to Places behind the scenes or blurred by speed; to Things including messy car interiors and handwritten notes in public.

“A woman cradles flowers on a city street. Sunset sweeps across an LA intersection. A Panama hat and tiger-striped seat covers suggest a safari in Provincetown.

“There is often tension between the camera’s nailing of details and an expressive vision that grabs moments flitting by. The choice of subjects is expansive, even whimsical. To the typical question asked of photographers what they take pictures of, the answer here is: ‘Anything that catches my eye.’”

The big picture

"Lisbon,'' by Gary Duehr, in the show "Inventing 3D Landscapes,'' at the Brickbottom Artists Association, Somerville, Mass.,  Dec. 1-Jan. 14. The group show focuses on new ways with which artists use dimensionality to explore landscapes -- whether, as the gallery notes say, "inspired by Google or ancient means of navigation.''