DRISKEL VINTAGE PHOTOGRAPHY

Driskel Vintage Photography at the Schoolhouse Center for Art and Design endeavors to present the finest in early photography from the mid-nineteeth to the mid-twientieth centuries.

Since the creation of the Driskel Gallery in 1998, Provincetown's only art gallery devoted exclusively to photography, visitors have been fortunate to see many notable exhibits of early work. Exquisite daguerreotypes, ambrotypes and tintypes share space with cartes d'visite and cabinet cards in an oak and glass collector's cabinet.

Work by such luminaries as Baron von Gloeden, Lewis Hine, George H. Seeley, Walker Evans, Eve Arnold and Cecil Beaton are represented in group exhibitions and in the portfolio library, containing a wealth of vintage and modern prints. Early vernacular photography is a specialty with anonymous cyanotypes, mugshots, studio pieces, snapshots and commercial productions.

Landmark shows by mid-century photographers, James Bidgood and the late Allen Ginsberg round out the scope of this exciting and unique addition to the Provincetown art scene.

 

For further information about the photographers and their work, please contact Larry Collins at 508.487.4800