American Lens: B & W Photography opens on September 15, starting the 2016 – 17 season. American Lens will focus on works by five photographers; those of the legendary George Tice and two photographers whom he mentored, Peter Bosco and Bruce Wodder and the works of father and son duo from Texas, Bank and John Langmore. George Tice began taking photos more than 60 years ago and had his first solo exhibition at the Met in 1972. He has shown in all the major museums and won countless national and international awards. The Flinn will exhibit seven of his platinum palladium photos, which will be for sale. At the opening reception he will sign his latest book, Seldom Seen. Tice is a superb craftsman who captures the details of the urban landscape of his native New Jersey and New York. Tice was a teacher of both Bosco and Wodder who teamed up to make a documentary about him, George Tice: Seeing Beyond the Moment, which will be shown as part of the Friends Friday Film series on September 30 at 8 pm preceded by an “Art Lounge” with refreshments in the Flinn at 6 pm and followed by a Q and A session with Bosco and Wodder. Peter Bosco, in his series Fading Places, from which the works in this exhibition are drawn, feels photographs can secure time, place and memory and seeks places that say America. Memory is fickle and a photograph is a record. In his current series Living in the Shadow, Bruce Wodder seeks the intersection of the ordinary, the urban and the industrial. The images describe the encroachment of industry on “home” and shadow the environmental impact of where and how we live. At first glance, little could be more removed from photos of the urban Northeast than the Langmore work on cowboy life on the vast ranches of the West. But their similar approach to using the camera lens to find humanity and poetry in commonplace, everyday images of vanishing worlds makes them ideal partners for this exhibition. Bank Langmore, is considered to be the pre-eminent photographer of the American cowboy in the 1970’s. Fascinated with working cowboys, he set out for the country’s largest ranches, traveling more than 20,000 miles in seven years to create his beautiful work on the American West, The Cowboy. Son John Langmore, inspired by his trips with his father, left his career as a lawyer in Austin, Texas to hit the cowboy road. He spent three years photographing many of the same ranches throughout the West and Southwest his father had documented 40 years earlier. His lens illuminates the cowboy lifestyle over decades, how much and how little has changed. Langmore will offer an illustrated talk on The Cowboy Life in the Meeting Room on Saturday, September 17 at 3:30 pm. The exhibit is sponsored by The Brand Gallery; the Flinn Gallery is supported by the Friends of Greenwich Library. All works are for sale. Gallery Hours: Monday - Saturday 10 am - 5 pm Thursday 10 am - 8 pm Sunday 1 pm - 5 pm (203) 622-7947 www.flinngallery.com   September 15 - October 19 American Lens: B & W Photography George Tice Peter Bosco Bruce Wodder John Langmore Bank Langmore keepposted