Noted Habitat Photographers to Visit Chico
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
September 17, 2004
CONTACT: Kathleen McPartland
Tel: 530-898-4260
Noted Habitat Photographers to Visit Chico
Two photographers, Don Normark and Susan Silberberg, known for their documentation of the destruction of habitat, will be visiting Chico from Sept. 30 through Oct. 5. Their visit is a result of the cooperative efforts of California State University, Chico and Avenue 9 Gallery.
Avenue 9 Gallery will present an exhibition for each photographer, beginning in early October. Normark documented the destruction of the Los Angeles Chavez Ravine community to make way for Dodger Stadium. Silberberg, photographer and art historian, has documented a six-mile stretch of riparian river corridor in Colorado that is now threatened with flooding to make way for a 110,000 acre-foot dam site.
Normark first took photos of Chavez Ravine in 1948 and continued taking them over the next 13 years. In 1977, he photographed many people from Chavez Ravine in their new circumstances. From these encounters evolved several exhibitions, as well as the book “Chavez Ravine 1949, a Los Angeles Story,” and a half-hour documentary film narrated by Cheech Marin.
The works of the two photographers will be exhibited at Avenue 9 Gallery, 180 East 9th Avenue, from October 1 through 31. A second display of Normark’s photographs of a community garden in Los Angeles will be mounted in Kendall Hall on the CSU, Chico campus over the same period.
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