John Dolan Photography At Berkshire Museum
PITTSFIELD – Photographs by John Dolan will be on view at Berkshire Museum’s “Berkshirebase” gallery from September 12 through November 2, 2008. The exhibition includes a selection of images from Dolan’s year-long survey of the people and places of the Berkshires. According to Dolan, his intended goal was to record life as it actually was in the year 2007.“To accomplish this,” he says, “I was forced to consider our collective expectation of what images of the bucolic New England rural life look like. These photographs show what happened when I stopped and looked at what was right before my eyes”. The project was funded by the Berkshire Taconic Community Foundation in honor of its 20th anniversary.
John Dolan lives in nearby Columbia County, New York, and is as a regular contributor to Real Simple, Self, Martha Stewart, Brides, and Cookie. He has woven a career of fine art, editorial, and advertising photography and gained national recognition as a leader in the movement to revitalize the fine art of wedding photography. His wedding clients included celebrity couples Will and Jada Smith, Matt and Annette Lauer, and Ben and Christine Stiller.
The Berkshire Museum is located at 39 South Street on Route 7 in Downtown Pittsfield. It is open Monday through Saturday, 10 a.m. to 5 p.m., and Sunday from noon to 5 p.m. For more information, the public is invited to contact the Berkshire Museum at (413) 499-7171, or online at www.berkshiremuseum.org.
