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Out of Season - Vanishing Mid-Century Modern Motels of Wildwood, NJ
5:30-7:30 pm
Main Branch - Richmond Public Library
101 East Franklin Street
Speakers:
- Photographer Mark Havens
- Roberto Ventura, Assistant Professor, Department of Interior Design, Virginia Commonwealth University
Photographer Mark Havens will be speaking about his recently-published book Out of Season, a chronicle of his decade-long effort to document the vanishing mid-century modern motels of Wildwood, New Jersey. The book has been the subject of more than 70 features worldwide from The British Journal of Photography to The South China Morning Post. The New York Times described the work as “a ten-year elegy” and Wallpaper Magazine recently called it “a revolutionary architectural diary”.
Roberto Ventura, Assistant Professor, Department of Interior Design, Virginia Commonwealth University will parallel Mark's talk with an examination of lostmid-century modern commercial architecture in the Richmond area and Virginia.
Hors d'oeuvres provided by Salt and Forge
Out Of Season book sales provided by Chop Suey Books
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