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For over forty years, Bernie Boston
has photographed the American social
and political scene. George Eastman
House is honored to tour a retrospective
exhibition of works by Bernie
Boston. According to curator and
historian Therese Mulligan, "Bernie
is a witness to our times and is rightfully
recognized as one of the United
States' most consummate news photographers."
As a staff photographer for
the White House and for noted newspapers
such as, The Dayton Daily News
(Ohio), the Washington Star, and the
Los Angeles Times, Boston implemented
his trained instinct for arresting heightened
moments of civil dissension.
Lauded as one of the leading photojournalists
of his generation, Bernie
Boston photographed personalities
and events that shaped the social
and political landscape in the United
States in the last half of the twentieth
century. Bernie Boston: American Photojounalist
is a comprehensive survey of
images chronicalling the Civil Rights
and anti-Vietnam movements; the
hermetic inner sanctum of the White
house and presidential residents; and history-making newsmakers, scandals,
conflicts, and triumphs.
The exhibition is arranged into
three sections: Civil Strife, The National
Stage, Features and Portraits.
Boston currently photographs and
publishes the Bryce Mountain Courier,
a regional Virginia newspaper.
Accompanying the exhibition is
a catalogue with seventy blackand-
white plates, an interpretive
essay, and a chronolgy.
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Bernie Boston (American, b. 1933). FLOWER POWER, 1967. Gelatin Silver Print. © Bernie Boston |
