55 Years of Making: Mark Chester Reflects on His Photography Career
May 22 @ 2:00 pm - 3:00 pm
| Free w/membershipThursday, May 22, from 2:00 – 3:00 p.m. Included with paid admission, FREE with membership. Photographer Mark Chester reflects on his 55 years making photographs, exhibiting in galleries and museums, publishing feature stories in magazines and newspapers, and publishing six books.
Time & Location
May 22, 2025, 2:00 PM
Cape Cod Museum of Art, 60 Hope Ln, Dennis, MA 02638, USA
About
Included with paid museum admission, FREE with membership.
This talk is offered in conjunction with Chester’s two concurrent exhibitions: Mark Chester Photographs: Sublime to Ridiculous and Loo-Loos: Restroom Gender Signs, the Photography of Mark Chester.
Photographer Mark Chester reflects on his 55 years making photographs, exhibiting in galleries and museums, publishing feature stories in magazines and newspapers, and publishing six books:
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Dateline America
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No in America
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Twosomes
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The Bay State: A Multicultural Landscape, Photographs of New Americans
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Roadshow Anthropology
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Loo-Loos Restroom Gender Signs
His career path began in New York City working at ASCAP – American Society of Composers, Authors, and Publishers. Chester cites that his assignment to illustrate essays for Charles Kuralt’s Dateline America book in 1979 was a pivotal and influential experience that opened opportunities to pursue photojournalism as his profession.