Artscope Magazine, Jan/Feb 2018
by Taryn Plumb
FEATURED
MUSEUM
MAINE MUSEUM OF PHOTOGRAPHIC ARTS
USM GLICKMAN FAMILY LIBRARY
314 FOREST AVENUE
PORTLAND, MAINE
THROUGH JANUARY 27
MAINE MUSEUM OF PHOTOGRAPHIC ARTS
USM GLICKMAN FAMILY LIBRARY
314 FOREST AVENUE
PORTLAND, MAINE
THROUGH JANUARY 27
At
first, it appears to be a touching image of mourning: A man lies on
his belly in a pastoral cemetery, leaning in so close to a gravestone
that his head nearly grazes it.
But
take a closer look and you see that, well — he’s taking a closer
look.
Not
at the headstone engraved with the surname “HUNT” but, rather, at
a small patch of white flowers that have sprung up out of the ground
at its base. He is a botanist at work; the grave is purely
incidental.
Captured
by photographer S.B. Walker, the black-and-white image is part of a
series taken in and around Walden Pond in Concord, Mass.
It
is among a variety of works in an exhibit honoring the 200th
anniversary of the birth of the celebrated transcendentalist Henry
David Thoreau, “We might Climb a Tree, at Least.” The show is on
display through January 27 at the Maine Museum of Photographic Arts
(MMPA) in Portland.
“We
wanted to cover Thoreau and celebrate the bicentennial of his birth,
but we wanted to do it in an updated way,” said Denise Froehlich,
director of the nonprofit art association formed in 2010. “Who are
the people today who are interested in transcendentalism?”
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