O Museu Marítimo de Ílhavo inaugura duas novas exposições no dia 19. A investigação e a fotografia sobre temas ligados ao mar e à pesca têm sido marcas fortes da sua programação:
A primeira mostra vem pela primeira vez à Europa, proveniente do
Mariners’ Museum, de Newport, USA. É a versão itinerante de uma
exposição inaugurada em 1997, que foi acompanhada por um
livro editado pela Yale University
Press, que talvez venha a ter edição portuguesa. John SZARKOWSKI (antigo comissário do MoMA e fotógrafo) escolheu as fotografias e escreveu a introdução. Richard Benson, fotógrafo e impressor, editou e acrescentou as histórias.
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A 2ª exp. reúne fotografias de João Laruncho de São Marcos (Ílhavo, n. 1919), Artur Seabra Oliveira (Penafiel, 1938) e João Cruz ( Marinha Grande, 1941): três testemunhos das campanhas do bacalhau nos mares gelados da Terra Nova e Gronelândia, por um comandante, um imediato e um enfermeiro, nos anos 50/60.
Inaugurações a 19 de Outubro de 2008, no âmbito das comemorações do 7º aniversário das novas instalações do Museu Marítimo de Ílhavo. ATÉ 1 DE FEVEREIRO
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E o Museu noticia também a realização do
COLÓQUIO INTERNACIONAL - "Octávio Lixa Filgueiras: Arquitecto de Culturas Marítimas", a 17 e 18 de Novembro.
na sequência da incorporação a título de depósito, em Maio de 2007, do espólio documental pertencente ao Prof. Arquitecto Octávio Lixa Filgueiras no Museu Marítimo de Ílhavo. O arq. Lixa Filgueiras foi um grande investigador sobre as embarcações tradicionais portuguesas e também um dos participantes do inquérito à Arquitectura Popular Portuguesa, 1955-81.
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A Maritime Album, 100 Photographs and Their Stories
John Szarkowski and Richard Benson, 1997, YALE UNIVERSITY PRESS, Copublished with The Mariners` Museum, Newport News, VA
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# One of 6 books to receive the 1997 Golden Light Awards for Photographic Book of the Year given by the The Main Photographic Workshops, Rockport, Maine
# Selected as a 1998 Notable Book by the New York Times Book Review
# Received a Special Mention from the George Wittenborn Memorial Award Committee for 1997 sponsored by the Art Libraries Society of North America (ARLIS/NA)
# Selected as the Photo-Eye Books and Prints Runner-Up for Best Historical Anthology of 1997
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" This fascinating book culled from the archives of The Mariners’ Museum features 100 historical photographs depicting the complex, often deeply passionate relationships of mariners with their vessels and the sea. Selected and introduced by the preeminent photographic critic of our time, each photograph chronicles a fragment of the mariner’s experience over the past 200 years—shipbuilding, the making of a wooden skiff, commercial fishing and whaling, amateur sailing, deep-sea diving, naval encounters, and much more.
In his introduction, John Szarkowski shares his artistic rationale for selecting the particular images that appear in the book. The mix is eclectic: some are the deliberate work of famous photographers while for others the photographer was simply a chronicler with a camera and a remarkable eye for composition and visual impact. Applying electronic and other techniques that he created and which he alone has mastered, Richard Benson has transformed the archival photographs into images of profound visual depth and emotional resonance. Benson’s essays, which accompany the photographs, unify image and story in a richly evocative vignette of time and place, of historical, societal, and individual meaning.
This book is the catalogue for a traveling exhibition that will open in December 1997 at The Mariners’ Museum in Newport News, Virginia.
John Szarkowski is widely considered the most influential living figure in the field of modern photography. Internationally renowned as a photographer, historian, and author of photographic books, he served as director of the Department of Photography at the Museum of Modern Art in New York until his recent retirement. Richard Benson, dean of the Yale Art School, is a photographer and master technician. He has produced the film for many innovative photographic books and has shown his work in numerous solo and group exhibitions. A recipient of a MacArthur Foundation award for 1986-1991, Benson is acknowledged as the world’s expert on photo-mechanical/photo-electronic reproduction."
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