Miles Community College will host the Humanities Montana Speakers Bureau program “Starting With Huffman: Photographers of Montana’s High Plains” with Kristi Hager on Thursday, April 7. The program will be held in the MCC Library at 6:30 pm. The presentation is free and open to the public. Partial funding for the Speakers Bureau program is provided by a legislative grant from Montana’s Cultural Trust and the National Endowment for the Humanities.
From the1870s to the present day, photographers have been motivated to capture the elusive high plains under hot, cold, windy, dusty, muddy, and lonely conditions. Their photographs have inspired people both to fill the land as well as to preserve its emptiness. Starting with L.A. Huffman, Hager looks at how each photographer uses the sky and geology to celebrate a wide, open, and often inverted landscape.
Hager, of Missoula Montana, is a professional historic preservation photographer. She has written and lectured on what makes a great photograph. She wrote the text for “Evelyn Cameron: Montana’s Frontier Photographer”, Far Country Press, 2008. Over five hundred of Hager’s photographs are archived at the Library of Congress.
For more information, please call the MCC Library at 874-6105.
