SEARSPORT — Penobscot Marine Museum’s 2022 exhibit “Kosti Ruohomaa: The Maine Assignments” showcases photographer Kosti Ruohomaa’s works that includes Maine scenes. The exhibit opens Might 27 and runs by way of Oct. 16.
Ruohomaa was a outstanding mid-Twentieth-century photojournalist who grew up in Rockland. He was a first-generation Finnish American immigrant and a gifted artist who died younger. Although his skilled work spanned simply over 20 years, he documented a vital time in American tradition by photographing across the WWII years. Throughout his profession, his photographs discovered their means into a few of the period’s extra seen publications, notably Life, Look and Nationwide Geographic. The affinity he felt with individuals and locations exhibits in his images, and it helped him seize the various folkways of an America that was altering quickly, significantly the fading world of rural outdated New England.
With a give attention to his Maine-based photographic assignments, “Kosti Ruohomaa: The Maine Assignments” explores the ways in which Mainers lived, celebrated, made their livings, recreated and communicated. Whereas lots of Ruohomaa’s most iconic pictures stand on their very own, he approached his assignments with a photograph essay in thoughts — telling the story by way of a collection of images. This exhibit embraces that method and presents his assignments by way of the attention of {a magazine} editor. It permits a deeper take a look at Ruohomaa’s work and approach and helps viewers acquire extra perception into the person and his images.
“Kosti Ruohomaa: The Maine Assignments” has been funded partially by beneficiant help from lead sponsor L.L. Bean and by Camden Nationwide Wealth Administration and Allen Insurance coverage and Monetary.
Penobscot Marine Museum brings Maine’s maritime historical past to life on a campus of historic buildings within the seacoast village of Searsport. Displays all through the campus inform tales of ship captains and their households, the industries of Penobscot Bay, international maritime commerce, and at present’s fisheries. Along with reveals, Penobscot Marine Museum has greater than 300,000 historic images, an in depth assortment of maritime artifacts and archives, and a maritime historical past analysis library. Go to penobscotmarinemuseum.org to study extra.
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