October 23, 2012 - ChaddsFordLive.com

Prom exhibit closing this weekend & Homer exhibit extended Philadelphia Museum of Art

Prom-Blast_165950 — Prom exhibit closing this weekend & Homer exhibit extended Philadelphia Museum of Art

Shipwreck! Winslow Homer and “The Life Line” Exhibition Extended
Now through December 31, 2012

Prom: Photographs by Mary Ellen Mark closes this Sunday October 28.

Between 2006 and 2009, American photographer Mary Ellen Mark visited thirteen high school proms to create portraits of attendees with a 20-by-24-inch Polaroid Land Camera. Only five such cameras exist, and they make extraordinary and unique large-format prints. Mark used the camera previously for her 2003 project Twins, and in Prom she applies it to the quintessential American coming-of-age ritual, selecting high schools from across the country that reflect the regional and class differences among Americans. Approximately sixty of Mark’s portraits are included in the exhibition, demonstrating the egalitarian spirit of her project and the continuing democratic potential of photography.

Prom: Photographs by Mary Ellen Markis presented in conjunction with the J. Paul Getty Museum’s publication of the book by the same name, and the Philadelphia Museum of Art is the first public venue of photographs from this series. Mark’s husband, filmmaker Martin Bell, produced a 33-minute video about the portrait subjects at the same time Mark made her photographs. Bell’s film is a touching and humorous window into the project and a superb complement to the photographs. Mark (born 1940) is a native Philadelphian and a graduate of the Annenberg School for Communication at the University of Pennsylvania. One of the schools represented in this series is her alma mater, Cheltenham High School, in Wyncote, Pennsylvania.

Curator

Peter Barberie, The Brodsky Curator of Photographs, Alfred Stieglitz Center

Location

Julien Levy Gallery, Perelman Building

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Letter to the Editor: Sign thieves steal rights

What sad and bitter irony that some people who prattle patriotism and shout loudest about liberty, freedom, and democracy are the very same people who attempt voter suppression at the state level, and succeed in vandalizing and stealing Democratic Obama signs on the local level. Well, got to say, my “neighbors'” bully tactics correlate with the Republicans they elect.

Every election year my yard signs are stolen. This year it has so far happened twice. These signs were on private property. I also know of many others in our area who have similar stories, one person’s sign was even removed from high up in a tree. Is this being done by the same people who beat the drum about individual rights and privacy as they trample on mine? These folks need to recognize that constitutional rights are mine as well as theirs.

Are they so afraid of the democratic process that they would rather create tyranny? Tyranny is institutionalized violence and bullying. Given the antics on the state and local level, where are we as a democracy?

Kayta Gajdos
Chadds Ford Township

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