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Matinee: Eye on the '60s
13 January 2024
Saturday matinees long ago let us escape from the ordinary world to the island of the Swiss Family Robinson or the mutinous decks of the Bounty. Why not, we thought, escape the usual fare here with Saturday matinees of our favorite photography films?
So we're pleased to present the 535th in our series of Saturday matinees today: Eye on the '60s.
This 2:45 clip from Lower Cape TV, reporter Teresa Martin covers an exhibit of civil rights era photographs by photojournalist Rowland Scherman at the Eastham Public Library in Eastham, Mass.
Sherman donated the images to the Cape Cod Lighthouse Charter School during his Cape tenure. He moved to Orleans on Cape Cod in 2000 and lived there for about a decade. He gave the school the images to enhance the school's history and language arts curriculum where they are displayed in the classrooms today.
Scherman was the first photographer for the Peace Corps in 1961, hired to docuent the work of its volunteers all over the world. He became a freelance photographer in 1963 with his work subsequently appearing in Life, Look, National Geographic, Time, Paris Match, and Playboy among many others. His photographs also documented many of the important musical, cultural and political events of the 1960s including the 1963 Newport Folk Festival, the March on Washington, the Beatles first U.S. concert and Woodstock.
His work is archived at UMass Amherst Libraries, Special Collections & University Archives.