South Brunswick Camera Club Program On Nineteenth Century New Jersey Photographers: Middlesex County

The next meeting of the South Brunswick Camera Club, will be held on Wednesday, April 6, 2011, 7:00 PM, at the South Brunswick Public Library, 110 Kingston Lane, Monmouth Junction.  The presentation  will be led by Gary D. Saretzky, archivist and photographer. 

The topic will be: Nineteenth Century New Jersey Photographers: Middlesex County.

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Of the approximately 3,000 different photographers who were active in New Jersey before 1900, a substantial number worked in Middlesex County.  In a slide lecture, Gary D. Saretzky will profile these pioneers, including David Clark and John C. Scott of New Brunswick, and discuss them within the larger context of New Jersey photography in the Nineteenth-Century.

Gary D. Saretzky, has worked as an archivist for more than forty years at the State Historical Society of Wisconsin, Educational Testing Service, and the Monmouth County Archives, where he has been County Archivist since 1994.  Saretzky also taught the history of photography at Mercer County Community College since 1977 and has served as coordinator of the Public History Internship Program for the Rutgers University History Department since 1994.  Under the auspices of the Horizons Speakers Bureau of the New Jersey Council for the Humanities, he lectures around the state on topics related to the history of photography.   Saretzky has published more than 100 articles and reviews on the history of photography, photographic conservation, and other topics, including "Nineteenth-Century New Jersey Photographers," in the journal, New Jersey History, Fall/Winter 2004.  For additional information on Mr. Saretzky, his work and photography, visit his website at www.saretzky.com.

The Camera Club, which meets at the library on the first Wednesday of each month, is sponsored by the South Brunswick Arts Commission.    Persons with all levels of experience, whether beginner, amateur or professional, are welcome to attend this free program.  For further information, please call the voice mail for the Arts Commission, (732) 329-4000, X7635.  Someone will return your call as soon as possible.