Friday, August 30, 2013

Boston Camera Club- Opening Meeting

The 2013-2014 season is starting off with a special treat at our opening meeting.  If you can share this information with your readers, we would appreciate it.  As always, members of the public are welcome to join us.  Meetings are held at 1773 Beacon Street, Brookline, in the All Saints Parish Church.  More information about the club can be found at www.BostonCameraClub.org.

Opening Meeting
Tuesday, September 3, 2013
            6:30 – 7:15 pm: Refreshments and Social Time
            7:15 – 7:45 pm: Preview of Upcoming Year
            7:45 – 9:00 pm: Program with Sally Matson 
Margaret Bourke-White, ground-breaking photojournalist from the 1930's - 1950's, will come to life in a living history performance by actor Sally Matson.
Margaret Bourke-White made sure she was "in the right place at the right time."  She was the first photographer for Fortune magazine;  A newspaper headline read, "GIRL'S PHOTOGRAPHS OF STEEL MANUFACTURE HAILED AS NEW ART."   She was the first Western photographer allowed into Russia in 1930 and she had the cover of the inaugural issue of Life magazine in 1936.  Her collaboration on a book with Erskine Caldwell documenting poverty in the South changed her focus to the people behind the machines.
Matson has received the rights to display many of Bourke-White's photos, including the Louisville Flood and its victims, the 1941 Nazi attack on Moscow, Stalin, the discovery of Buchenwald, and Gandhi with his spinning wheel.  
Upon graduation from Northwestern University, Matson performed for the Department of Defense in the Pacific.  Moving from state to state for her husband's career, Matson took writing courses at the University of Virginia extension and Manhattanville College.  She wrote and hosted programs for Connecticut Cable Television and has acted and directed for forty years.  Research for the program was conducted at Syracuse University.  Matson has performed as Susan B. Anthony-the Invincible!  since 2002.  
Performances of  Margaret Bourke-White, Courageous Photographer  in 2013 include:  Manchester Library- Vermont; Pollard Library- Lowell, MA;  Memorial Hall Library-Andover, MA, and Photographers Forum of Nashua, NH.

More info on the show can be found at www.MargaretB-W.com.

Thank you,
Sam

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Sam Westover
Publicity Chair | Boston Camera Club