Photographer Mark Chester: Roadshow Anthropology
West Falmouth Library is pleased to host the Cape-based photographer Mark Chester, discussing his 2023 book Roadshow Anthropology, on Thursday, September 12th at 7pm. Registration required; register below.
This collection of engaging black-and-white photographs captures America from the driver’s seat. Chester offers a fresh perspective on the United States’ iconic highways, byways, back roads, and small-town main streets. Mark will have books on hand for sale; his books are also available at Eight Cousins.
Raised in Springfield, MA, Mark is a Cape Cod–based photographer and journalist, working professionally since 1972. He was Director of Photography and staff photographer at ASCAP (American Society of Composers, Authors and Publishers), in New York City. His photographs are in the permanent collections of Baltimore, Brooklyn, American University Corcoran Legacy Collection Washington DC, Denver, Portland (Maine), and San Francisco museums, among others.
National museum and gallery exhibitions of his work, solo and group, include OK Harris and SoHo Photo (NYC); Camera Obscura (CO); the San Francisco Airport, and other venues. Chester is a Copley Artist of the Copley Society of Art in Boston.
His photographs also accompany his own travel articles as published by the L.A. Times, Boston Globe, St. Louis Post Dispatch, Chicago Tribune, San Francisco Chronicle, Washington Post, and Christian Science Monitor among other newspapers and special interest magazines.
His 1987 traveling exhibition and catalogue “Shanghai in Black and White” commemorated San Francisco’s Sister City as part of a cultural exchange program displayed at the Fort Lauderdale, FL, Museum of Art; The Sidwell Friends School, Washington, DC; and the San Francisco Main Library.
His previous books include Dateline America, a collaboration with Charles Kuralt, and a mirthful collection of photographs called Twosomes. From 2015-2020, a traveling exhibit of Mark’s photographs, The Bay State: A Multicultural Landscape, toured the Commonwealth.