Gallery Talk by John Szarkowski and Richard Benson on a Maritime Album: 100 Photographs and Their Stories, Currently on Exhibition at the UMMA
Contact: Joe Carr at 581-3571
Richard Benson and John Szarkowski will conduct a gallery talk in the University of Maine Museum of Art on Monday evening, March 28, 2005. A Maritime Album: 100 Photographs and Their Stories is on exhibit at the museum until April 2, 2005. The exhibition, which conveys a sense of maritime history through 100 photographs selected from the collection of the Mariner’s Museum in Newport News, VA, was the result of the efforts of two of the most important and influential individuals in the modern history of photography, Richard Benson and John Szarkowski.
John Szarkowski is widely considered the most influential living figure in the field of modern photography. Internationally renowned as a photographer, historian, and author of photographic books, he served as director of the Department of Photography at the Museum of Modern Art in New York until his retirement in 1991. At 80, Mr. Szarkowski’s photographs are the subject of a retrospective exhibition at the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art which opens in February. He was profiled in the current issue of Vanity Fair.
Richard Benson, Dean of the Yale University School of Art, is a photographer and master technician. He has produced the film for many innovative photographic books and has shown his work in numerous solo and group exhibitions. A recipient of a MacArthur Foundation award for 1986 – 1991, Benson is acknowledged as the world’s expert on photo-mechanical/photo-electronic reproduction.
The evening will include a reception with wine and hors d’oeuvres at 6:30 p.m. with a gallery talk by Mr. Szarkowski and Mr. Benson to follow from 7:00 – 8:00 p.m., they will also sign the book that accompanies the exhibition.
The event has an extremely limited number of tickets remaining. The nonrefundable tickets are $10.00 per person and must be purchased prior to the event. For more information or to reserve your tickets, please contact the Museum Office at 561.3350.
March 28, 2005
6:30 – 8:00 p.m.
Norumbega Hall
40 Harlow Street
Bangor, Maine
561.3350