PHOTOS BY BATES COLLEGE FACULTY
Exhibition April 28-May 18, 2008
Recent Work: Photographs by Michael Reidy, Kirk Read and Claudia Aburto Guzmán:These members of the Bates faculty in diverse fields offer different perspectives on the photographic medium. Aburto Guzmán shows figurative black-and-white silver prints, Read presents digital images from a daily photo diary and Reidy displays film images made in Japan last June with an inexpensive Holga camera. Chase Hall Gallery
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ACCOMMODATING NATURE: THE PHOTOGRAPHS OF FRANK GOHLKE
ADDISON GALLERY OF AMERICAN ART
Phillips Academy, Andover, MA
April 12-July 13, 2008
A major mid-career retrospective of the artist Frank Gohlke will be on view at the Addison this spring. A leading figure in American landscape photography, Gohlke takes pictures that explore how we live and build our lives surrounded by a natural world that rarely meets our ideals and expectations. Whether photographing Wichita Falls, Texas, where he grew up; the grain elevators that punctuate the vast spaces of the Midwest; changes brought by the 1980 volcanic eruption of Mount St. Helens; or the neighborhoods of Queens, New York, Gohlke’s camera deftly captures the tension between humanity and nature, exploring how people adapt to the forces of nature both great and small, even within the confines of their own backyards.

Accommodating Nature: The Photographs of Frank Gohlke is organized by the Amon Carter Museum and is made possible in part by generous support from the Perkins-Prothro Foundation, Exelon Power, and the Vin and Caren Prothro Foundation.
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Todd Webb Joy Without Measure

April 18, 2008 - July 5, 2008

Joy Without Measure, features 80 gelatin silver prints of Todd Webb’s dramatic photographs. The exhibition highlights Webb’s significant contributions to American photography as represented in his images of New York City and Paris in the 1940s-1950s.

A master photographer, Todd Webb’s distinctive body of work has attained an important place in the history of American photography. Often described as “an historian with a camera,” Webb’s wonderfully rich images move beyond historical documentation, reflecting a more evocative and lyrical sense of time and place. His images are always deeply human and expressive, whether the subject is a group of children playing hand-in-hand on a New York summer day or an abandoned sculpture, left on a street during Nazi-Occupied Paris. Influenced by other well-known American photographers, such as Ansel Adams, Alfred Stieglitz, and Berenice Abbott, Webb often worked to explore a particular idea or concept yet allowed intuition to guide his sense of subject and visual structure. This integration of systematic looking and instinctive seeing is clearly evident in the photographs presented in Joy Without Measure. In 1975, Todd Webb and his wife Lucille moved to Maine, where they spent the last 25 years of his life.