As part of Foothill College’s 50th anniversary celebration, the Photography Department has scheduled an exhibition, “Foothill in the ’50s: Images by Morley Baer, Rondal Partridge, Karl H. Riek, Tony Rose and Vano-Well-Fagliano Photography Inc.,” Sept. 25 through Oct. 23 in the newly renovated Photography Department Room 6101. An opening reception is scheduled 4-7 p.m. Sept. 25.
The collection is part of the Foothill College photographic archive. Working alongside Ansel Adams and Edward Weston, Baer photographed the California landscape but rose to fame as an architectural photographer. Partridge, son of photographer Imogen Cunningham, worked as an assistant to Dorothea Lang and Ansel Adams. He photographed the Western United States before establishing his freelance photographic business. Although little is written about Riek, he participated in the architectural photography of the Marin County Civic Center designed by Frank Lloyd Wright.
Foothill students Barbara Collins, Gabriel Hernandez, Jan Laskowski, Sofia Laskowski, Gene Mason and Mechthild Raeder-Schikorr curate the exhibition as a class project under the direction of Foothill photography instructor Ron Herman.
Admission is free, and the public is invited. Parking lots 1, 5 and 6 provide easy access to Room 6101 and the Campus Center. Foothill College is located at 12345 S. El Monte Road, Los Altos Hills.
For more information, call 949-7082 or visit www.foothill.edu.
