News Release
NCSU Libraries to Host 'The American Soldier, A Photographic Tribute' Exhibit
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Anna Dahlstein, (919) 513-0379
Oct. 1, 2007
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
"The American Soldier, A Photographic Tribute," an exhibition of 116 photographs from the Civil War to the War in Iraq, will open at the NCSU Libraries on Oct. 13, 2007. Free and open the public, it will remain on view at the D. H. Hill Library on the North Carolina State University campus until Jan. 11, 2008.
"The American Soldier" is a dramatic exhibition of photographs that capture the essence of American soldiering over more than 150 years, ever since the birth of photography when the camera became a kind of notebook to history, starting with the Civil War. As photography improved, so did the record of the American soldier: The camera got closer and closer to the essence of the soldiering life.
The 116 enlarged photographs in this exhibition cover America at war from the Civil War, Spanish American War, Boxer Rebellion, World Wars I and II, Korea, Vietnam, the Persian Gulf War, Afghanistan and to the streets of Baghdad. The exhibition captures the danger and the frustration, the humor and the beauty, the camaraderie, the death and the victory that the American soldier has encountered in his odyssey through history - and continues to encounter today, in the mountains of Afghanistan and the urban battlefields of Iraq.
The curator and producer of "The American Soldier" is NC State Distinguished Alumna Cyma Rubin, an Emmy and Tony award-winning producer. Rubin is also the curator and producer of the highly successful exhibition, "Capture the Moment, The Pulitzer Prize Photographs," which drew thousands of visitors to the NCSU Libraries in 2003. Durham's Herald-Sun called the Pulitzer exhibition one of the region's 10 best art exhibitions of 2003, and the weekly Independent said the Pulitzer exhibition was "the best traveling show to come through the Triangle in recent memory."
"The American Soldier" exhibition is sponsored by EADS North America, the North American operations of EADS, the second largest aerospace and defense company in the world. The exhibition is sponsored and presented by Business of Entertainment Inc., an innovative company that produces live theatre, films, documentaries and photography exhibitions. Local sponsorship has been provided by The News & Observer.
For information on visiting the exhibit, a selection of photographs, and more, visit the exhibit Web site at www.lib.ncsu.edu/exhibits/americansoldier/.
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