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Portland Phoenix | Bathing in Images: The Maine art season celebrates the cultural dominance of photography

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Portland Phoenix | Bathing in Images: The Maine art season celebrates the cultural dominance of photography
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Megan Jones, Snow Stroll, Yeti series, 2017, Ink jet prints, 20 x 20 inches. From Contemporary Portraiture 2018 at the USM Glickman Library.

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Jack Montgomery, Girl with a gun, 1997, Ink jet print, 15 x 15 inches. From Contemporary Portraiture 2018 at the USM Glickman Library.

We live in a image-saturated culture. If you have a phone, you have a camera. Chances are you’ve posted an image on social media in the past 18 hours. As a cultural critic, I hope it was not your lunch or your feet. I mean, I’m fond of cats, too, but I have my own, I don’t need to see daily documentation of yours. Please shoot something more interesting.

This summer, Maine’s art institutions and galleries have done that. They offer numerous opportunities to broaden your perspectives regarding image-making.

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From "Winslow Homer and the Camera" at the Bowdoin College Museum of Art. Photo courtesy Bowdoin College Museum of Art.

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From Clarence H. White and His World: The Art and Craft of Photography 1895-1925"

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"Ashley," photography by Tabitha Barnard, from Barnard's Cult of Womanhood exhibition at SPEEDWELL Projects July 19-31.

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