Photographer’s Talk for Click! Exhibit of Photographic Masterworks, Tuesday May 10, 6-7pm at Sharon Arts Gallery
Photographer Gary Samson to discuss Innovative Exhibit of Vintage Photographic Masterworks at Sharon Arts, Tuesday, May 10, 6pm
Gary Samson, chair of the photography department at the New Hampshire Institute of Art, will deliver a lecture on Click! Contemporary Responses to Photographic Masterworks, the current
"Magic Cove, Inverness County, Cape Breton," by Gary Samson- 2008. (captured on film and digitally printed)
exhibit now at Sharon Arts Center’s downtown Galleries Tuesday, May 10th at 6pm. Admission to this public educational program is free and all are welcome!
Discussing masterworks by such renowned photographers as Robert Frank, Weegee, Edward Weston, Lee Friedlander, Dorothea Lange, Walker Evans and more, Gary’s lecture will focus on the historical and thematic content of the images in the exhibition which opens Friday, May 6th from 5-7pm at the Center’s downtown exhibition gallery (reception sponsored by Lake Sunapee Bank).
About Gary Samson: Gary Samson is recognized as an accomplished fine arts photographer and photo educator. In 1984 he received a fellowship from the NH Council on the Arts for his environmental portraits of New Hampshire artists and writers. His work is included in the permanent collections of the Currier Museum of Art, the New Hampshire Institute of Art, the State of New Hampshire, the Art Galleries at the University of New Hampshire as well as private collections. In the fall of 1998 his work was included in the exhibition Moments in Time: Master Photographs from the Currier Gallery of Art. In the fall of 1999, Mr. Samson exhibited a portfolio of his work in Andrezieux-Boutheon, France at the invitation of the French government. Since 1971 when Gary began working as a photographer at UNH, he has been documenting the people, places and events that make up University life. In 1974 he was promoted to the position of University Filmmaker. Photography and filmmaking assignments for the University over the years have taken Gary to off campus locations including Peru, Ireland, Labrador, Belize, Guatemala and the White House. As Filmmaker, Gary has produced ten films reflecting the history and culture of the State of New Hampshire. These documentary and dramatic films have been aired locally, and nationally on cable broadcasts such as Cinemax, as well as on commercial and public television stations. Beginning in 1974, Gary has extensively utilized 19th and 20th century photographic archives in the production of films and exhibitions about New Hampshire’s rich history. His best known films, A World Within A World: The Amoskeag Manufacturing Company and Milltown, are sensitive portrayals of Manchester’s textile mills and the people who labored in them. In 1982 He organized and curated an exhibition on the Franco-American experience in New Hampshire which has traveled to Canada and France as well as throughout New England. After producing a film on the life of internationally acclaimed portrait photographer Lotte Jacobi, Gary spent six years with Ms. Jacobi cataloging her archive of 47,000 negatives which were donated to the University of New Hampshire in 1981. Gary has also written several books on New Hampshire history including A World Within a World: Manchester, The Mills, and the Immigrant Experience and Capitol Views: A Photographic History of Concord, New Hampshire 1850-1930. In 2001 he was appointed Chair of the Photography Department at the New Hampshire Institute of Art in Manchester, NH. [bio courtesy of the New Hampshire Institute of Art]
For a complete listing of free public programs for all ages related to this exhibition, visit www.sharonarts.org or call 603-924-7676
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About Sharon Arts
The mission of Sharon Arts Center, a non-profit organization, is to engage the community in the artistic process, to support and serve artists and craftspeople, and to foster the relationship between artists and the community through education, exhibitions, the promotion and sale of art and craft, as well as through special programs and events.
Sharon Arts Center offers a wide variety of art classes and programs in the school facility in Sharon, NH, a Fine Craft Gallery, a Juried Artist Member Gallery, and an Exhibition Gallery at Depot Square. The Sharon Arts Craft Store is accessed through Depot Square and 30 Grove St. in downtown Peterborough. The Craft Gallery is located in Depot Square in Downtown Peterborough. Store & Exhibition Gallery hours are: Monday – Saturday 10am to 6pm, Sunday 11 – 5 PM.
Sharon Arts is sponsored in part by: The New Hampshire State Council on the Arts, The National Endowment for the Arts through the American Recovery & Reinvestment Act, The Susan A. & Donald P. Babson Charitable Foundation, The Bean Foundation, The Max & Victoria Dreyfus Foundation, The Putnam Foundation, The Grimshaw-Gudewicz Charitable Foundation, The Kingsbury Foundation, and art lovers like you!