
A showing of Jennifer Bishop’s photographs
A sampling of 30 years of Baltimore street photography
Above: Butterfly Mural
If you don’t know the work of Baltimore photographer Jennifer Bishop (our Diane Arbus, our Dorothea Lange) you’ll have a rare chance to see it, with a show featuring her work opening at Harford Community College on Monday. It includes 27 photographs, among them some that date back to her earliest days in the city.
For 17 years, readers of the free alternative tabloid Baltimore City Paper knew that every week, on Page Three, they could find another eerily beautiful or faintly disturbing stand-alone photograph by Bishop, one of the cool kids who founded City Paper.
The show, “30 Years of Photographs,” at the school’s Chesapeake Gallery in the Student Center, runs from Nov. 14, 2011 to Jan. 6, 2012.
You can hear a talk by Bishop, still an art and commercial photographer in Baltimore (and a sometime Brew contributor), at a reception on Wed. Nov. 16 from 6 pm to 7:30 p.m.
For more information on the show, which is curated by Assistant Professor of Art, Chris Heard, call 443-412-2461.