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| Thursday, November 12, 2009
Category: Main category. Added by: fcc On display November 11, 2009 - February 2, 2010 THE AMERICAN SOLDIER, A PHOTOGRAPHIC TRIBUTE, an exhibition of 116 photographs, from the Civil War to the War in Iraq, will open to the public at 9:00am on Veterans Day, November 11th, 2009 at Florence Civic Center of Florence, SC. The breathtaking display will be on view and available to the public thru February 2nd, 2010. THE AMERICAN SOLDIER is a dramatic exhibition of photographs that captures the essence of American soldiering over more than 150 years, ever since the birth of photography when the camera became a notebook to history, starting with the Civil War. As photography improved so did the record of THE AMERICAN SOLDIER. The 116 enlarged photographs in this exhibition, covers America at war from the Civil War, Spanish American War, Boxer Rebellion, World War I, World War II, Korea, Vietnam, Gulf War, Afghanistan, and to the streets of Baghdad. The exhibition captures the danger and the frustration, the humor and the beauty, the camaraderie, the death and the victory that THE AMERICAN SOLDIER encountered in his odyssey through history and continues to, as he battles today in the mountains of Afghanistan and the urban environs of Iraq.
Free Admission The curator and producer of THE AMERICAN SOLDIER is Cyma Rubin. Ms Rubin is also the curator and producer of the highly successful exhibition, Capture the Moment THE PULITZER PRIZE PHOTOGRAPHS.
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