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New photography exhibit opens at Mountain Gateway Museum<br />
BY ROANN BISHOP • OLD FORT<br />
Two friends—both clad in Civil<br />
War uniforms—pose together<br />
for the camera. One wears Confederate<br />
gray; the other, Union<br />
blue.<br />
In a 1928 snapshot, a dead<br />
sperm whale that washed ashore<br />
at Wrightsville beach lies surrounded<br />
by spectators.<br />
A larger, more professional<br />
photograph of about the same<br />
vintage shows a snowy view of<br />
Morganton’s Broughton Hospital,<br />
part of it still under construction.<br />
These images and more than<br />
30 others are part of “Look Again:<br />
Discovering Historical Photos,”<br />
a traveling photography exhibit from the NC<br />
Museum of History in Raleigh that is now open<br />
at the Mountain Gateway Museum in Old Fort.<br />
The free exhibition<br />
runs through Sunday,<br />
May 5.<br />
The introduction of<br />
photography in the<br />
mid-1800s forever<br />
changed the way we<br />
record and remember<br />
our personal lives, as<br />
well as our community’s,<br />
state’s<br />
and nation’s history.<br />
Some images in<br />
“Look Again” show<br />
changes over<br />
time—in fashion,<br />
architecture, landscapes,<br />
technology, and society. Other photos<br />
show faces, some well-known, others not known<br />
at all.<br />
Eric Blevins, chief photographer at the North Carolina<br />
Museum of History in Raleigh, will present a free<br />
program at Mountain Gateway Museum (MGM) in<br />
Old Fort on Sunday, <strong>March</strong> 17. Blevins will discuss<br />
images in the state history museum’s collection, some of<br />
which are featured in its traveling exhibit, Look Again:<br />
Discovering Historical Photos, now open at MGM.<br />
Registration is required for the program.<br />
The large-scale reprints in the exhibit represent<br />
a variety of photographic processes, dating from<br />
the mid-1800s through the 1970s. Some of the<br />
original images were 19th-century daguerreotypes,<br />
ambrotypes, and tintypes. Others were<br />
first printed from turn-of-the-twentieth-century<br />
glass-plate negatives. Many were taken on blackand-white<br />
roll film of the early 1900s while still<br />
others were captured on the new color film of the<br />
1950s and later.<br />
The photographs in “Look Again” are divided<br />
into four thematic sections: Telling Stories, Taking<br />
a Closer Look, Remembering Faces, and Capturing<br />
Moments. Each section focuses on stories<br />
and interesting details associated with each<br />
photo.<br />
On Sunday, <strong>March</strong> 17, 2 pm, Eric Blevins, chief<br />
photographer at the NC Museum of History, will<br />
present a program at Mountain Gateway Muse-<br />
‘Photos’ continued on page 29<br />
26 |RAPIDRIVERMAGAZINE.COM | RAPID RIVER’S ARTS & CULTURE | VOL. 22, NO. 07 — MARCH <strong>2019</strong>
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