David Tewes (American, 1913-1991), Water Carnival, Hutchinson, MN, 1950, Kodachrome slide.
Shutterbug: The Mid-Century Photography of David Tewes
January 10 - May 3, 2020
Minnesota-born David Tewes was a soldier in the U.S. Army during World War II with a penchant for photography. After Tewes’ death in 1991, his family discovered a large collection of his Kodachrome photographic slides taken between 1944 and 1955. These never-before-seen images offer a unique view of post-war America, including river and lake scenes around his hometown of Hutchinson, MN and Minneapolis and St. Paul, and snapshots from his trips to the coasts of Los Angeles, San Francisco, Mexico, and New York.
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Shutterbug Redux, Reuse, Recycle: The Photographs of David Tewes
Thursday, January 23, 2020, 6:00-7:00PM. Free*.
Photographer and scholar Drake Hokanson, will explore the delightful color photographs of Minnesota shutterbug David Tewes in the 1940s and 1950s. In the context of that exuberant era, and he will provide some ideas about what to do with that inevitable box of old photographs in your closet.
*This event is free thanks to the generous support of Ernest and Sally Micek in memory of W.B. "Bill" Gautch.
