Photography Exhibit

I enjoy taking photos. When I heard that there was a new photography exhibit at the Shelburne Museum, I was eager to see it. The exhibit is titled Kodachrome Memory: American Pictures, 1973 - 1990.

Geo and I went with friends to the museum for a presentation by the photographer Nathan Benn. Mr. Benn was a photographer with National Geographic when he was assigned to a project in Vermont in 1972. He was to capture images of everyday life in this very rural state. Choice photos were published in 1973, but most went into a box that he first examined about ten years ago. Some of these images are the ones on exhibit.

After his presentation, we went to see his work.

Geo is looking at an enlarged photograph of spools from the Vermont Spool and Bobbin factory in Burlington that had closed in 1976.  The photo looks almost like a painting.

This was one of my favorites. It was taken on a farm in Fair Haven, Vermont.

The original slides of the photos are under glass. There's a magnifying glass there to look at them more closely.

What I like about photography is that it captures moments in time that can be revisited again and again. The photographer interprets what he or she see through prospective and composition, and directs our attention to details of objects and events that we could otherwise easily miss. 

A good photograph tells a story, and Mr. Benn is truly a master storyteller.