Photo Galleries From Past Openings
Susan kae Grant - Night Journeys
Paul Taylor - Themes and Variations
Michael Yamashita - The Silk Road and Great Wall of China
Volunteer Students from Hallmark Institute of Photography - Annual Spring Exhibit and Benefit Print Sale to support humanitarian work of Doctors Without Borders
Past Exhibits
Susan kae Grant - Night Journeys
January 19 - March 16, 2008
Photographic visualizations based on personal dream researches.
Night Journeys embodies the collaboration of artistic creativity and sleep laboratory methodology in the exploration of REM sleep, memory, and the unconscious. The work is composed of a series of intriguingly haunting large-scale images that recreate the fragmented and multi sensorial experience of dreaming. The inspiration for the project came from the artist's desire to conduct an inquiry into the subconscious, which led to her experiences sleeping as a subject in a sleep laboratory.
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Paul Taylor - Themes and Variations
January 19 - March 16, 2008
Creative work utilizing arcane, historic, & contemporary photographic processes.
Themes and Variations is an exhibition of work selected from several of the diverse photographic series that Mr. Taylor has executed over the past twenty years. Running through these projects can be found a sometimes dark, foreboding and enigmatic vision, while at other times he provides the viewer with an almost childlike visual simplicity of joyous discovery and revelation.
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Lili Almog - Perfect Intimacy
Runs through June 15, 2008
‘Perfect Intimacy’ Revealed Through Photographer’s Eyes
The exhibit "Perfect Intimacy" by Lili Almog opens at Hallmark Museum of Contemporary Photography on March 20, 2008. The New York City-based photographer has taken her exploration of women and their private spaces into the cloistered worlds of three female Carmelite monasteries in Maryland, United States; Haifa, Israel; and Bethlehem, Palestine. The exhibit continues through June 15, 2008 at Hallmark Museum of Contemporary Photography Gallery 52, Turners Falls, Massachusetts.
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Linda Butler - Meditations on Simplicity
Runs through June 15, 2008
Shaker Vision Endures
"Meditations on Simplicity", a photographic exhibit by Linda Butler, opens at Hallmark Museum of Contemporary Photography Gallery 56 on March 20, 2008. Butler's poignant black and white images draw on the beauty and deliberate simplicity of the architecture and objects of the Shakers, a communal religious sect that flourished in the eastern United States over a century and a half ago. "Meditations on Simplicity" continues at Gallery 56, Turners Falls, Massachusetts, through June 15, 2008.
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Stella Johnson - Al Sol
Runs through June 15, 2008
Photographer Searches for Universal Experience
Stella Johnson's exhibit "AL SOL", with its gently revealing black and white images from rural Mexico, Nicaragua and Africa, opens March 20, 2008, at Hallmark Museum of Contemporary Photography. Johnson, a Fulbright Scholar, whose ongoing search for a universality of the human experience, has dedicated nearly twenty years to documenting the lives of families in rural Mexico, Nicaragua and the Cameroons, West Africa. She has also worked on photographic projects with the minority Garifuna and Miskito Indian Cultures of Central America. "AL SOL" continues at the museum's Gallery 85, in Turners Falls, Massachusetts through June 15, 2008.
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Volunteer Students from Hallmark Institute of Photography - Annual Spring Exhibit and Benefit Print Sale to support humanitarian work of Doctors Without Borders
Through June 29, 2008
Brighten up your world and help our global community at the same time! Hosting its third Annual Spring Exhibition & Benefit Print Sale, June 19 through June 29, 2008, Hallmark Museum of Contemporary Photography is once again collaborating with volunteer students from Hallmark Institute of Photography, to benefit Doctors Without Borders. A festive public celebration with refreshments and live music will be held Saturday, June 21 from 1:00 to 5:00 p.m. at Gallery 85, Avenue A, Turners Falls, Massachusetts, to promote this event.
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Michael Yamashita - The Silk Road and Great Wall of China
September 25 - December 16, 2007
"Silk Road & Great Wall of China" is an exhibition of sixty photographs selected from three of Michael's books: Marco Polo: A Photographer's Journey (which has sold over 240,000 copies); Zheng He: China's Greatest Explorer; and forthcoming, The Great Wall of China.
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Ron Rosenstock - Hymn To The Earth
July 5 - September 23, 2007
This exhibition is a forty-year retrospective of Ron Rosenstock's photographic work. The name comes from the title of his last book, a monograph of natural and constructed landscapes.
Tom Young / John Willis - Recycled Realities & Other Stories
March 22 - June 17, 2007
Tom Young received his M.F.A. from Rhode Island School of Design and is currently a professor of art at Greenfield Community College and Massachusetts College of Art. He has been recipient of an Artist Fellowship from the National Endowment for the Arts and four Artist Fellowships from the Massachusetts Cultural Council.
John Willis earned his M.F.A. from Rhode Island School of Design. He is a professor at Marlboro College and is co-founder of the In-Sight Photography Project (Brattleboro, Vermont), and the Exposures cross-cultural youth photography programs.
Douglas Kirkland - FACE to FACE: Portraits from Fifty Years
January 3 - March 2, 2007
Douglas Kirkland started his career at Look and Life Magazines in the 60's and 70's golden age of photojournalism. He has worked on the set of over 100 motion pictures (including Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid, 2001: A Space Odyssey, Out of Africa, Titanic and Moulin Rouge) and his iconic images of Marilyn Monroe, Elizabeth Taylor, Jack Nicholson, Angelina Jolie and Antonio Banderas, among others, are known all over the world. Some of his books include "Light Years", "Legends", "Body Stories", "An Evening With Marilyn" and the best selling James Cameron's "Titanic".
John Paul Caponigro - REFLECTIONS
September 25 - December 17, 2006
Born in Boston, Massachusetts, in 1965 and raised in Santa Fe, New Mexico, John Paul Caponigro attended Yale University and University of California at Santa Cruz graduating with a BA in Art and Literature in 1988. In 1989 he moved to coastal Maine where he lives and maintains his studio.
Kevin Bubriski - Bridging People/Bridging Cultures
July 6 - September 24, 2006
Kevin Bubriski's documentary photographic projects have taken him to numerous remote and historic locations worldwide; Nepal, Peru, Syria, Turkey, India, Mali, China, Ireland and Italy, among them. Closer to home, he's also completed significant bodies of work in small-town Vermont and, on the streets of New York City.
Jay Maisel - Retrospective
April 6 - June 18, 2006
Maisel, photographing since 1954, has selected works from his career as an advertising, corporate and editorial photographer based in New York City.
Inaugural Exhibition: Barbara Bordnick
January 28 - April 2, 2006
The museum's inaugural exhibition will be photographs by New York-based portrait and fashion photographer Barbara Bordnick. In addition to her international client list of publications such as Harper's Bazaar, Life, Vogue Francais, New York Times Magazine, and Geo, she is noted as the author/photographer of the recently released book "Searchings: The Secret Landscape of Flowers" and a series of posters from her work with botanical specimens.