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Back by popular demand this year will be a screening of the film: What is a Portrait? showing Arnold Newman at work photographing his protege, Gregory Heisler. Following the screening, panelists Michael Komanecky, Chief Curator at the Farnsworth Art Museum; and Emily Schiffer, 2010 winner of the Arnold Newman Prize for New Directions in Photographic Portraiture, discuss the life and work of this master photographer and friend of the Workshops. British documentary photographer, Jason Larkin, is the winner of the 2011 Newman Prize, and will have a show of his work at the Farnsworth At Museum, beginning 2 July. For more information, go to: www.farnsworthmuseum.org
This event takes place Monday, July 18, at 4 pm in the Union Hall Theatre, 2 Central Street in Rockport, Maine.