Zanesville in the Thirties: More Photographs by Dr. Harry W. Taylor
Zanesville in the Thirties
Exhibit at Zanesville Museum of Art
Now Through September 18, 2010
August 28, 2010 - Zanesville, OH - This exhibition is a retrospective, featuring black and white photographs taken by Dr. Harry W. Taylor in Zanesville, Cleveland, and Columbus in the 1930's. The first exhibition of Dr. Talor's original photographs occurred in late 2008. The new exhibition consists of additional images and some viewer "favorites" from the 2008 show.
Dr. Taylor was born in Zanesville, Ohio in 1921. He lived in Zanesville until he graduated from high school in 1939 and left for college, completing medical school at Temple University in 1945. With the encouragement of his daughters, Dr. Taylor contacted the Museum and made the generous offer to loan photographs for the exhibition.
He writes, "My great passion for photography started around age 13 or 14 - 8th or 9th grade. This was the period of the 'candid camera' craze and 35 mm. film. I had a Kodak "Retina" camera with an f 3.5 lens but no light meter or rangefinder. I think it was Christmas 1937 when my father bought me a Leica model F with an f 2.0 lens and rangefinder but not light meter."
This exhibition includes images of people, their work and pastimes, places and events in and around Zanesville. Viewing each one is like reading a sensitivity composed paragraph on some topic from local history. Although they are of splendid quality, the photographs had never been publicy exhibited before. The exhibition goes thru September 18, 2010.