"Pritchard, Alabama Jail"
© John Shearer
at Aldrich Contemporary
John Shearer's show America (Continued) recently opened at the Aldrich Museum in Ridgefield, Connecticut. Shearer has been a photojournalist since the '60s, first as one of the youngest staff photographers hired at LOOK magazine, and then as a photographer at LIFE until the magazine ceased publishing. Among Shearer's achievements is having covered the civil rights movement of the '60s, the Attica Prison riots of 1972, and the first Ali-Frazier fight--the "Fight of the Century".
A portfolio of Shearer's images can be seen here. The "News Events" section gives a good cross section of his most powerful work. In addition to his photography, Shearer is an author of fiction and nonfiction for children.
Still River Editions printed two large-scale photographs for Shearer's show--the image above, and also the image below. Richard Klein, exhibitions director at the Aldrich, mentions the two images as bookends for the show in the last paragraph on the museum's page about Shearer's show.
artwork
© John Shearer
at Aldrich Contemporary
The Aldrich Museum of Contemporary Art is located at 258 Main St. Ridgefield, Connecticut.