SACO — The Saco Museum is showing a collection of photographs by Charles E. Moody from the late 19th and early 20th century.
The photographer lived in town and made images that “transcended the documentary abilities of the medium to create photographs of astonishing quality, capturing the beauty, humor and contrasts of this idiosyncratic state,” says museum director Jessica Routhier.
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The exhibition, “Unconventional Portraits: Photographs by Charles E. Moody,” is a collaboration between the Dyer Library/Saco Museum and the McArthur Public Library in Biddeford.
It highlights Moody’s achievements and turns attention to his archive of negatives, slides, photographs and camera equipment that is part of the collections of both institutions.
“Unconventional Portraits” is on view through Feb. 26.
Moody was born in Saco in 1859, and spent much of his adult life in Newark, N.J. He returned to Saco often, and made many images of the people and places of his youth. In poor health, he returned to Saco in 1913. He died two years later.
His archives include hundreds of images. The museum will show about 75 of them, alongside artifacts from his life and career.
The exhibition includes a catalog.
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