‘PHOTOGRAPHY OF GEORGE W. JOHNSON’ AT GIBBES MUSEUM OF ART

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CHARLESTON, S.C. — The Gibbes Museum of Art will present the exhibition, “A Souvenir of Charleston: The Photography of George W. Johnson,” through April 15.

In this exhibition, the Gibbes Museum of Art showcases photographs of Low Country landmarks now vanished or altered. Johnson’s photographs represent one of the most comprehensive and historically significant visual records of late Nineteenth and early Twentieth Century Charleston in existence.

Photographing both rural and city scenes, Johnson captured images of Charleston’s architecture and environs that provide an intimate portrait of the city’s landscape. Featuring such striking images as the Morris Island Lighthouse with the original light keeper’s house and the South Carolina and West Indian Exposition of 1901–02, this exhibition showcases images of Charleston’s architecture from 1890–1930.

The museum is at 135 Meeting Street. For more information, www.gibbesmuseum.org or 843-722-2706.