Every Picture Tells A Story
Sheffer Gallery
October 8 through December 15
Reception and Artist Talk: Wednesday, October 15, 6-8 pm, in the Trefz Forum; click here for more information.
(Reception kicks off at 6 pm, followed by an artist talk with guest curator and photographer Arthur Nager at 7 pm.)
About the Exhibit
Every Picture Tells a Story includes photographs from The Westport Public Art Collections selected to coordinate with StoryFest 2025 and to highlight the work of the many creative photographers represented in the collection. Curator and photographer Arthur Nager worked with Carole Erger-Fass, exhibit curator of The Westport Library, and members of the Westport Public Art Collections to identify photographs that demonstrated diverse creative and technological approaches to the medium. The work on display includes portraits, landscape studies, historical, documentary, and abstract imagery in black and white and color.
The exhibit features internationally renowned photographers Philippe Halsman, Alfred Eisenstaedt, Eliot Porter, and Lucia Nebel White; along with wonderful creative imagery from Westport photographers including Larry Silver and David Kalman, who focused on the town and region; photojournalists Spencer Platt and Lynsey Addario, among others.
Nager will also be leading a three-part Verso University workshop, Visual Storytelling: Develop Your Photographic Vision, in conjunction with his exhibit and with StoryFest 2025.
About the Curator
Throughout a 50-year career as an artist and photo educator, Arthur Nager has focused on documenting the social landscape — the people, structures and places that reflect the character of where and how we live. His goal has been to capture the details of our evolving culture to convey what is timeless and constant in our lives. His work incorporates chance, circumstance, and premonition with the element of irony.
“I am driven by curiosity to capture how people, and the visual elements that surround us are overlooked and taken for granted but key to understanding the culture in which we live.”
Nager’s work is part of educational and museum collections including The International Museum of Photography at The George Eastman House, The South Street Seaport Museum, the Museum of Art, Santa Cruz, Kennebunk Museum, the Westport Public Art Collections, and the Mattatuck Museum in Waterbury. His recent exhibit focusing on the towns of the Naugatuck Valley took place at the Mattatuck Museum earlier this year.