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Dave Anderson, “BBQ Queen,” 2004, gelatin silver print, 20 by 20 inches. ©Dave Anderson.

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WOODSTOCK, N.Y. — The Center For Photography At Woodstock announces its summer 2007 exhibitions: “Photography Now ’07,” a group show, and solo exhibition, “Dave Anderson: Rough Beauty.” An opening reception and artist talk with Dave Anderson will be Saturday, June 9, 5 to 7 pm (talk begins at 5:30 pm); both shows will be on view June 9–August 18.

“Photography Now ’07,” juried by Alison D. Nordstrom, curator of photographs, George Eastman House, features artists Gideon Barnett, Paul Giguere, Chad Hunt, Alison Hunter, Andrew Liccardo, Tamara Lischka, Forest McMullin, Franc Palaia and Kristopher Stallworth.

CPW’s annual juried exhibition presents the newest voices in photography spanning the United States, from Massachusetts and New York to California, Illinois, Texas and Oregon. Out of more than 270 applicants, Nordstrom selected nine featured photographers whose work crosses boundaries, charts new territory, and exemplifies what is new and now in photography in 2007.

Curious about what a “Klan Town” looks like, Dave Anderson started to photograph the people and places of Vidor, Texas, a small rural community in the Southeast corner of the state, in 2003.

He quickly became drawn to the community’s isolation and the resilience of its people living in a permanent brand of American poverty. His black and white photographs provide an emotional portrait of a town whose identity is fixed, branded by a singular period of time and whose past, present and questionable future adds up to a kind of “rough beauty.”

His photographic approach parallels the work of such Depression-era photographers such as Dorothea Lange, Walker Evans and Russell Lee, while simultaneously evoking the poetic stylings of such contemporary luminaries as Keith Carter and Michael Kenna, two of Anderson’s mentors.

Center For Photography At Woodstock is at 59 Tinker Street. For information, 845-679-9957 or www.cpw.org.