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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
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