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Digital Photography Special Interest Group Meeting
Thursday, March 15, 2007
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Have you ever had to do a blog posting or Powerpoint presentation and
you needed a photograph? You wanted images that you legally had the
right to use (and I'm not talking about the "right click-save as" kind
of right. You wanted legal images that don't cost you an arm and a
leg. If this sounds familiar, you'll want to attend this month's
Digital Photography Special Interest Group meeting.

The topic will be LEGALLY FREE IMAGES FOR YOUR DIGITAL PROJECTS.
Charles Burkett will give an overview of sources of free images for
your weblog, Powerpoint presention or commercial brochure or website.
Most of these sources use the creative commons license structure that
is part of the growing open source approach to intellectual property.

The Digital Photography SIG will meet Thursday March 15, 2007 at 6:30
p.m. at the Maple Heights Branch of the Cuyahoga County Library.

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Special thanks to the Friends of Photography of the Cleveland Museum
of Art for making me aware of the following program in April that is
free and open to the public.

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A Song for Unsung Heroes: African American Soldiers in the Civil War
An exhibition of the work of photographer William Earle Williams
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Williams will be in Akron to lecture on his work as part of the
Bidwell Visiting Artist Lecture series on Wednesday, April 4 at 6 pm
in the auditorium of Folk Hall (150 E. Exchange St., Akron).

An opening reception for the exhibition will follow, from 7:30-9 pm.
All events are free and open to the public.

The exhibition runs April 2 -25 in the Emily Davis Gallery of the Mary
Schiller Myers School of Art, The University of Akron

Williams' work in these photographs seeks to bring recognition to the
contribution of African American troops to the Union victory. African
American soldiers, who were over 180,000 strong, have been
considerably underrepresented in the documentation of the Civil War.
As Williams noted while creating the series Gettysburg: A Journey in
Time (1986), the stories of the sites that serve as relevant landmarks
in the story of minority soldiers were given little to no mention in
historical documentation. The combination of these realities served as
the motivation for Unsung Heroes, as he asked himself, "Are these
sites not as equally important to our country's history?" Williams'
responded by creating a pictorial documentation of these notable
landmarks and a historical record of a forgotten national memory.

Williams was awarded a John Simon Guggenheim Fellowship in 2003-2004,
during which much of Unsung Heroes was created. Recently, Williams has
been granted a Pew Fellowship in the Arts, as well as a Pennsylvania
Council of the Arts Fellowship. His work has been exhibited in many
major institutions, such as the Cleveland Museum of Art and the
Smithsonian, and his photographs can be found in the permanent
collections of the Philadelphia Museum of Art, the Baltimore Museum of
Art, and the Metropolitan Museum of Art. Williams served on the
national board of the Society for Photographic Education from
1997-2003. He is currently a professor of fine arts and curator of
photography at Haverford College in Haverford, Pennsylvania, where he
has been since 1978.

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