BRATTLEBORO — Join the Brooks Memorial Library and the Brattleboro Camera Club for an evening with Chris Szwedo, the director of the film Eye on the 60s: The Iconic Photography of Rowland Scherman, in the library's meeting room on Wednesday, Sept. 23, at 7 p.m.
Eye is an inter-disciplinary, stratified story about a passionate photographer - Rowland Scherman of Life magazine, who followed his path to remarkable people and events in the 1960s - from the inception of the Peace Corps and JFK to Dylan, the March on Washington, the Beatles, LBJ, RFK 1968, iconic celebrities, war protests, and the Woodstock Festival.
In addition to an inspiring fly-on-the-wall history, the film is also about creativity, change, journalistic professionalism, and making sense of the quickness of life. The film features insightful interviews with Scherman, music legend Judy Collins (his 1969 Life cover story), and the highly-respected Life magazine journalist and People founder Richard B. Stolley.
Eye began as a theatrical film and is 88 minutes in length. It was listed as a “top five films about photography” in American Photo magazine last year, but previously won the 2013 Audience Award at the civil-rights themed Sidewalk Film Festival in Birmingham, Ala., as well as Best Documentary at the inaugural Fairhope Film Festival.