Tuesday, August 21, 2007 7 pm

Where: Georgetown Historical Society Center for History and Culture, 20 Bay Point Road, Georgetown, Maine

Contact: Jeanne Bailey McGowan, Georgetown Historical Society, 371-9200, jmcgowan@georgetownhistoricalsociety.org.


With her 1897 purchase of a cottage at Little Good Harbor, poet Louise Imogen Guiney was perhaps the first connecting thread of an impressive tapestry of photographers and other artists who "found" Georgetown. The earliest of these included international acclaimed Clarence H. White, F. Holland Day, Paul Strand, and Gertrude Kasebier, as well as painter Max Weber.  During the summers from1911 to 1915 Clarence White's Seguinland School of Photography was a focal point as students from across the country came to hone their skills and learn from these accomplished artists. Even after the summer school moved to Connecticut, Georgetown's natural beauty and the opportunity to interact with kindred creative spirits continued to be a drawn.

 

Louise Imogen Guiney and Fred Holland Day at Little Good Harbor in Georgetown, circa 1900.  It is from the GHS archives.

 

The evening's presentation will focus on photographs of and by the people of that period, as well as the places that inspired them.  A number of the photos come from the Ruth and Clarence White, Jr. Collection of the GHS archives, donated to the Society several years ago.  

As with all its community programs, this GHS event is free and all are welcome.