Friends of the Garden City Public Library will sponsor a free 1-hour visual lecture “Great Photographers: Ansel Adams & Friends” with Nassau County Museum of Art docent Phyllis Goodfriend on Thursday, November 17, 2016 at 2:00pm at the Garden City Public Library located at 60 Seventh St., Garden City, NY. This program will highlight major American photographers.
Priority will be given to Garden City residents by presenting your GCPL card at the program room door. Non-residents will be accommodated on a space available basis 10 minutes before showtime. No saved seats. Limited parking. No tickets are required. Please, no busses. For directions phone: (516) 742–8405. The Library’s website is www.gardencitypl.org.
An American photography exhibit will be on view at the Nassau County Museum of Art from Nov. 19, 2016 through Mar. 5, 2017. Gain valuable insight from Phyllis Goodfriend who is a photographer as well as a docent at the museum. The work of Ansel Adams, Dorothea Lange, Alfred Stieglitz, Edward Curtis, and Edward Steichen are just a few luminaries whose works will fill the museum’s galleries.
View powerful images and learn about the techniques and artistry with which they were created. See how these photographers influenced the nation’s knowledge of our westward expanding country, the Native American population, the Dust Bowl, the Great Depression, and the development of photography as an art form.
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