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Fran Orlando: The Roosavelt Project


  • Hicks Art Center 275 Swamp Road Newtown, PA, 18940 United States (map)

Fran Orlando photographed the residents of Roosevelt, NJ, for two years starting in 1978. The town was born of a 1930s New Deal project intending to bring Jewish garment workers in New York City out to the country to work in a cooperative factory. When the factory failed, the town became a rural mecca for artists, writers, and musicians. Orlando intended to create a portrait of the town by photographing the people who live there, several of whom were original residents. This exhibition revisits the previously unfinished project and presents a selection of 40 portraits that reflect a unique community at a particular moment in time.

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RECEPTION: Fran Orlando