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DESCRIPTION:Join the Bowdoin College Library for an opening of the Spring 2
 026 exhibit\, A Wide Variety of Views: The Photography of Leon B. Strout fo
 r a talk\, exhibit tour\, and tea on Friday\, February 13 from 2:00-4:00PM.
  \n\n2PM (Nixon Lounge\, 3rd floor) Talk: A Wide Variety of Views: A 20th C
 entury Maine Studio Photographer and his Worlds with historian Libby Bischo
 f \nA Brunswick local\, Leon B. Strout (1869-1937) gained commercial succes
 s in the early twentieth century as a skilled photographer distinguished by
  his technical virtuosity and compelling compositions\, many of Brunswick a
 nd the surrounding area. It took a tremendous amount of creativity\, hustle
 \, and pluck to be a successful studio and commercial photographer in a wor
 ld of ever-expanding and competing images and image-makers. In this richly 
 illustrated talk\, Bischof places Strout firmly in the context of the growt
 h and development of photography in Maine and New England at the turn-of-th
 e-century.  She also explores how Strout constantly expanded his frame of r
 eference—from his studio and landscape work in Brunswick\, to Boston\, to t
 he embattled post-WWI landscapes of rural France and back—and the ways in w
 hich these landscapes and peoples shaped his understanding of the world. \n
 \n3PM (2nd floor Gallery) Exhibit Tour and Tea with curator Katie Perry\nA 
 Wide Variety of Views introduces the photographic works of Leon B. Strout i
 n an exhibition curated by the Strout Family Photographic Archivist\, Katie
  Perry. After researching and digitizing thousands of Strout's photographs\
 , Perry offers a distinct perspective and a brilliant overview of the colle
 ction.Though Strout’s reputation faded as his images—primarily glass plate 
 and film negatives he left behind upon his death—remained inaccessible for 
 most of the 20th century\, Strout's photographs and personal papers are now
  discoverable and open for research. \n\nSupport for this project provided 
 by Khoi Hong and Kristin Strout P'26\, Benjamin S. Strout and members of th
 e extended Strout Family.
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LOCATION:Nixon Lounge\, Third Floor & Second Floor Gallery\, Hawthorne-Long
 fellow Library\, Nixon Lounge\, Third Floor & Second Floor Gallery\, Hawtho
 rne-Longfellow Library
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SUMMARY:A Wide Variety of Views: Exhibit Opening
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