Hazy black and white photograph with leaning in trees creating a rough path. In the path is a woman walking away, with long black hair.

Sunday, May 7, 3:00 p.m.

Visionary Photographers: John Brook and Steven Trefonides

Visionary Boston, currently on view in the Museum, features artistic experimentation among and between mid-20th-century Boston artists grappling with life’s mysteries. This talk will explore the work of two of the artists on view, John Brook and Steven Trefonides. Each used photography to explore worldly and otherworldly themes through their creative and innovative images.

A Sunday Spotlight with Thom Adams and Gary Samson

Thom Adams and Gary Samson will reintroduce the poignant photography of Brook and Trefonides, and discuss a range of their photographic work, including images from Trefonides’ photobook India (1969) and Brook’s A Long the Riverrun (1970).

Their imagery will also be discussed in relation to other 19th and 20^th century photographers, including Lotte Jacobi, Henri Cartier-Bresson, Irving Penn, Richard Avedon, Ansel Adams, Edward Steichen, F. Holland Day, Clarence White, and Julia Margaret Cameron.

Gary Samson is Professor Emeritus of Photography, Institute of Art and Design at New England College and the 7th Artist Laureate of New Hampshire. Samson is a fine art photographer, filmmaker, and photo educator who has received numerous awards, grants, and fellowships for his work over the past forty years. He produced a film on and cataloged the archive of 47,000 negatives of internationally acclaimed portrait photographer Lotte Jacobi, which were donated to the University of New Hampshire in 1981. Samson is a team member of the John Brook Archive and a contributor to Visionary Boston.

Thomas L. Adams, former owner of an art gallery in Portland, Maine, collector, and the founder of the Adams Center for Photographic Research and Study at the Institute of Art and Design at New England College, Manchester, NH, and John Brook Archive President, and a contributor to Visionary Boston.