Fredi Schiff Levin Lecture: Elman and Holt, the Outer Cape Art Colony in Portrait

Both Elman and Holt have documented the extraordinary talent drawn to “The Last Resort,” capturing the energy, natural beauty, and community that makes life on the tip of Cape Cod unique. Please join co-curators Jane Paradise and Ethan Cohen, along with the artist Ray Elman, for a panel discussion on the varied approaches to picturing the creative community of the Outer Cape.

The photographer Norma Holt (1918-2013) was passionately committed to photo-documentation as a way of life and a means to initiate social change. Her work took her from the streets of New York City, to anti-war protests of the Vietnam era, to the villages of the working poor across the globe. For over five decades Holt summered in Provincetown; she treasured the egalitarian nature of the town, where celebrated artists and writers mixed easily with locals and developing artists. Two books of portraiture resulted from her time on the Cape: Face of the Artist and On Equal Ground: Photographs from an Artists’ Community on the Tip of Cape Cod.