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Exhibition Schedule:
Baldwin Photographic Gallery
Middle Tennessee State University
1500 Greenland Drive
Murfreesboro, TN 37132
March 7 – April 15, 2005
Artist’s talk: April 11, 2005
For additional information:
tel: (615) 898-2085
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Photographs
by:
© Vaughn Sills |
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Over
a period of 20 years, Boston-based photographer
Vaughn Sills patiently chronicled the complex
lives of the Toole family in rural Georgia.
Sills, a professor of photography at Simmons
College in Boston, has created a body of work
that is both documentary and portraiture, partially
sponsored by Polaroid Corporation. Her solo exhibit "One Family" features
35 photographs.
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The
Polaroid black-and-white pictures are described by
an art critic as "liquid and luminous" and Sills herself
says, "It's true they have a very fine and sharp quality.
There's a beautiful fine resolution to the images
which are very clear." Sills has exhibited her work
nationally and been awarded grants by The Commonwealth
of Massachusetts Council on the Arts and Humanities
and the Polaroid Foundation through the New England
Foundation for the Arts.
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"One
Family," Sills' book published by the University of
Georgia Press, was released to coincide with this
exhibition's tour. Sills says the Toole family of
today has evolved to 27 members representing four
generations. Importantly, her long-term relationship
with the family became a pleasurable collaboration
over time. The Tooles "in their own words" speak for
themselves in the book. From the thousands of images
taken over two decades Sills selected 143 portraits
for the book, combining them with interviews, correspondence
and the poems of Tina Toole Truelove.
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