BRUNSWICK — The Bowdoin College Museum of Art will present a talk by Todd Gustavson at 4:30 p.m. Wednesday in conjunction with the exhibition “Winslow Homer and the Camera: Photography and the Art of Painting.”

Gustavson, curator of the Technology Collection, the George Eastman Museum, explores the evolution of camera technology in the 19th century and the three cameras that Winslow Homer utilized as part of his artistic practice.

This event is free and open to the public.

It will be held in the museum’s Kresge Auditorium, 9400 College Station. FMI, call 207-725-3275 or visit their website, bowdoin.edu/art-museum.

This Mawson & Swan camera owned by Winslow Homer, circa 1882, was a gift from Neal Paulsen, in memory of James Ott and in honor of David James Ott, 1974, to the Bowdoin College Museum of Art.


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