8-Day
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A weekly e-newsletter from the publisher of Chronogram containing:
Up-to-date Mid-Hudson events, listings, selections of insight
for conscious living, and social & political commentary.
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Parting Shot
untitled from the “Nurse Midwife” series,
W. Eugene Smith©, B&W print, 1951
An exhibition of photographs
by W. Eugene Smith, “Selections from Photographic Essays,” on
loan from the Smith Family Collection, will be exhibited through July
27at the Samuel Dorsky Museum of Art on the SUNY New Paltz campus. Regarded
as a master of the photographic essay, Smith (1918-1978) traveled the
globe documenting people and events, including the Battle of Saipan during
World War II, Albert Schweitzer in Africa, and a monumental, 10,000 photograph
series on Pittsburgh that took Smith three years to complete.
The untitled image above, from the “Nurse Midwife” series, is
the story of Maude Callen, a black woman working in an impoverished community
in the rural South, whom Smith photographed for a Life magazine photo
essay. Smith’s photos of Callen marked the first time a black woman
was featured in a national magazine. For more information on the exhibition,
call 257-3844.
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Parting
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