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VINTAGE PHOTOGRAPHS BY A. AUBREY BODINE
Continuing on View
Open on Fridays by appointment & Open on Saturdays from 12noon to 5pm.
As always, refreshments will be served and you will be met by the gallery's official greeter, "Teddy."

Born in Baltimore, Maryland in 1906, A. Aubrey Bodine began photographing in the 1920s and continued a long and popular career as the feature photographer for the Baltimore Sunday Sun until his death in 1970. For almost fifty years, Bodine was the feature photographer for the Sunday Sun and his photographs were published every week in the Sunday magazine.

While beloved by his friends and associates, Bodine was well known for his eccentric ways and his devotion to the "pictorialist" approach to photography. During the 1940s and 1950s, when many photographers were turning to the sharp-focus aesthetic or the social documentary philosophy, Bodine continued as an ardent romantic pictorialist. His was a painterly style which embraced dramatic compositions, and soft-focus imagery as well as expressive print- making.

This exhibit will feature some rare and unique Bodine images, some have not been on view for many years. While best known for his photographs of the Baltimore Harbor and the Chesapeake Bay, Bodine also produced some extraordinary "modernist" image, often of industrial scenes. Examples illustrated here are the Conowingo Dam from 1936 and Baltimore Shot Tower, c. 1940