While the Summer Book sale features books in all categories, the Mid-Winter sale focuses on fiction in a seemingly limitless array of genres. There will be:
Large selections of children's books and videos
Hundreds of hand-picked LP records
Collector comic books
Vintage paperbacks
Good selection of matted prints
Audio books and videos
2009 Mid-Winter Book Sale Hours
Saturday January 17: 9 am to 5 pm
Sunday, January 18: 9 am to 5 pm
Monday, January 19: 9 am to 5 pm
Tuesday, January 20: 9 a.m. to noon or until books are gone ALL BOOKS $5/BAG!!
Volunteers have been working all year long to make the Mid-Winter Book Sale and its big brother the Summer Book Sale (July 24 to July 28, 2009) such a success. These "pricers and sorters" examine every single donated book, assigning it a price and a category so that our patrons can easily find the kinds of books they are looking for. There will be music by Mark Naftalin (the pianist for the Paul Butterfield Blues Band) and his trio which will be broadcast live on WPKN radio.
Call Pequot Library 203-254-0369 ext 25 for more information or email booksale@pequotlibrary.com
Photographer Nathaniel Gibbon's On Exhibit At Pequot Library
Photographer Nathaniel Gibbons, a life-long resident of Westport, will be exhibiting large format non-digital tintypes of of the Bronx River in December in the Perkin Gallery at Pequot Library. He has worked in this photographic media since the mid-1970's producing work with a number of different 19th century photo techniques, such as tintypes and ambrotypes. He prints single images and also in much larger triptych and diptych formats.
Tintypes and ambrotypes are direct positive images on metal or glass, respectively popular in this country from the 1860s to the 1880s the eigthties. This style of photography is collectively known as "wet plate" due to the fact that exposed plates must be developed before their sensitized surface dries out. Each image is a unique edition of one as there is no negative from which to make duplicate prints. Wet plate images are noted for their extremely fine grain with long tonal scale.
Gibbons photographs include regional cityscapes and landscapes, and most recently a series documenting the glacial course of the Bronx River which will be the subject of his exhibit at Pequot Library. His photographs of the Merritt Parkway bridges and formal industrial mills of Bridgeport are in numerous private and public collections, including the Yale Art Gallery, the Museum of Fine Arts Houston, and the Library of Congress.
Most recently, The Museum of Modern Art has selected one of his tintypes for inclusion in their current show "The Printed Picture" which is an overview of printing techniques curated Richard Benson former Dean of the Yale School of Art.
Gibbons is an Associate Fellow of Branford College at Yale University and-- a full-time Fire Inspector for the Westport Fire Department. As part of the programming associated with the exhibit, Gibbons will give an Artists Talk and will demonstrate the craft of producing a tin-type. After a quick survey of the various techniques of early photography he will make a tin-type picture of Pequot Library using his large format camera, and then process it in the Library’s Auditorium using his portable lab. Gibbons will donate the rights to the image and allow Pequot to make digital reproductions for sale to help support its exhibit program.
In conjunction with the exhibit, Andrea Stillman, who was personal assistant to world-renowned photographer Ansel Adams and is currently the Director of Development of the Morgan Library, will give a talk on the new book on Adams’ photography of which she has been editor on Saturday, January 10 at 3:00 p.m. at the Library. Adams was one of the first creative photographers to use the printing technology of pre-coated film that replaced tintypes.
The exhibit of the work of Nathanial Gibbons is the fourth in a series curated by Enid Munroe of local photographers working in various media and techniques. Ms. Munroe recently won the Volunteer of the Year Award for her efforts in arranging these stunning exhibits.
This exhibition opens on December 7th with a reception from 2:00 to 4:00 p.m.
For more information, about the current exhibit or upcoming events, visit Pequot Library’s website at www.Pequotlibrary.org or call the Library at 203-259-0346.
