Staff Report
Photography in Virginia takes center stage at the third and final event in the Harrisonburg-Rockingham Historical Society’s Fall 2009 Strickler Lecture Series.
On Thursday, Nov. 19, Jeffrey Ruggles, curator of prints and photography at the Virginia Historical Society, in Richmond, will discuss the history of photography in Virginia, 1840s to present. He also will talk about the evolution of photographic formats, from daguerreotypes to Kodak snapshots.
The lecture, which is free and open to the public, takes place at 7 p.m. at the Harrisonburg-Rockingham Historical Society Museum, in Dayton.
The lecture coincides with the Harrisonburg-Rockingham Historical Society’s newest exhibit, A Century of “the New Method”: Photographers in Rockingham County, Virginia, 1850-1950,” which opens the following day, Friday, Nov. 20.
Ruggles is the author of Photography in Virginia, published in 2008 as a companion to a major exhibit he curated at the Virginia Historical Society. Ruggles also is the author of “The Unboxing of Henry Brown,” which documents the life of Henry Box Brown, a slave in Richmond who shipped himself to freedom in a sealed box.
The Harrisonburg-Rockingham Historical Society Museum is located on the corner of Bowman and High Streets, in Dayton. For more information about the lecture or the historical society, call 540.879.2616. The lecture series is named in honor of Robert H. “Twig” and Lorraine Strickler, longtime members and supporters of the Harrisonburg-Rockingham Historical Society.
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