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Peter Turnley: The Compassionate Lens
DUBOIS GALLERY, Maginnes Hall 9 West Packer Avenue, BethlehemNelson Mandela emerges from the shadows after twenty-seven years in captivity; the Berlin Wall crumbles; Kurdish refugees flee from Iraq to southern Turkey – these are the scenes of the human condition. If it happened in the last thirty years, photojournalist Peter Turnley was there, camera in hand...
Pedro Meyer: Truth from Fiction
Fairchild-Martindale Study Gallery 8 E Packer Ave, BethlehemMexican photographer Pedro Meyer (b. 1935), is a pioneer of the digital revolution in contemporary photography, one of the first photographers to manipulate his images digitally. Because of its mechanical nature, photography has often been misconstrued an unbiased reproduction of a single moment, a snapshot of the exact truth - something that Meyer disputes ...
Photographs Are Ideas
LUAG MAIN GALLERY, Zoellner Arts Center 420 E. Packer Ave., BethlehemPhotography has been a lifelong passion for LUAG Director and Chief Curator Ricardo Viera. When Viera first came to Lehigh University in 1974, his priority was to establish professional standards for the art works he found. To his dismay, he discovered—among the many paintings, prints, and coins which made up the fine art collection—there was only one photograph. With this discovery his first IDEA was born: to build a teaching collection centered around works-on-paper, including photography.