Chelsea Record ·
From the Photo Archives of Arnold Jarmak
The recurring archive feature includes a late-1970s photograph of 49–51 Broadway at Broadway and Medford Street. The official issue is linked externally.
Open the August 6, 2026 issue ↗Press and archive
Selected interviews, reviews, and newspaper features trace the continuing life of the photographs. For press, licensing, or archive requests, contact the studio directly.
Chelsea Record ·
The recurring archive feature includes a late-1970s photograph of 49–51 Broadway at Broadway and Medford Street. The official issue is linked externally.
Open the August 6, 2026 issue ↗The Boston Globe ·
Reviewing Cape Ann Museum's Above the Fold exhibition, Mark Feeney pauses at Jarmak's nine Fishermen's Institute photographs and describes the engaged, caring presence that carries through the work.
Read the Cape Ann review ↗GBH / Morning Edition ·
Jared Bowen's GBH segment describes Jarmak's embedded relationship with Chelsea, the empathy in the work, and the difference between living in a community and briefly parachuting in for photographs.
Read or listen on GBH ↗Chelsea Record ·
Arnie credits Diana Larsen with recognizing what he was trying to say through the photographs and helping open a new museum chapter for the work.
Read the Chelsea Record coverage ↗The Boston Globe ·
Mark Feeney reviews Arnie Jarmak's McMullen Museum exhibition alongside Darlene DeVita's People of Chelsea Project, recognizing the history, social observation, personality, and artistry carried by Jarmak's photographs.
Read the McMullen review ↗The Salem News ·
Gail McCarthy revisits Jarmak's 1974 arrival in Gloucester, the working waterfront that met him there, and the Fishermen's Institute photographs through which a young photographer began to find his path.
Read the Gloucester feature ↗Chelsea Prospers ·
In this recorded conversation, Arnie tells the Chelsea Record story in his own voice and discusses Andrew P. Quigley, the publisher whose part in that story Arnie wanted restored to the site.
Watch the interview ↗The Boston Globe ·
The profile accompanies Jarmak's April 2015 Chelsea City Hall exhibition and records his return to the negatives, his life inside Chelsea, and the freedom Andrew P. Quigley gave him at the Chelsea Record.
Read the profile ↗On air · GBH / Morning Edition
Jared Bowen's 2022 segment considers the empathy in Jarmak's photographs and the difference between living in a community and arriving only briefly to make pictures.
GBH / Morning Edition · 2 minutes, 54 seconds
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Published August 6, 2026, this recurring Chelsea Record feature returns to a late-1970s view of 49–51 Broadway at Broadway and Medford Street.
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