Marie Martin, fine arts expert and appraiser, will speak on “Iconic Images: Pictures Worth 1,000 Words” at Heron Point on Thursday, December 5, 2013. Photography is a universal language – its images speak across boundaries, cultures and time through their ability to preserve events that affected our lives, past and present. Over the past 174 years, photographic images have come to define war, social conditions, celebrations, and disasters. Martin will examine why some photographic images become iconic, why they were taken or how, and what measure of importance they hold in today’s world.
Martin’s appraisals have included photographs from the archives of former White House photographers, images by photojournalists, Hollywood stills, and historical and documentary work from the Matthew Brady/Levin Handy Studio.
The lecture, open to the public and sponsored by the Ad Hoc Committee at Heron Point, will be held at 7:00 P.M. in Wesley Hall, located at 501 East Campus Avenue. Parking is available in front and at the side of the main building.
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