{"id":1643,"date":"2016-11-03T15:04:01","date_gmt":"2016-11-03T15:04:01","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/archives.library.illinois.edu\/sousa\/?p=1643"},"modified":"2024-05-22T18:56:10","modified_gmt":"2024-05-22T18:56:10","slug":"richard-e-brooks-50-years-of-fine-arts-photography-exhibition-opens-today","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/wordpress.library.illinois.edu\/sousa\/2016\/11\/03\/richard-e-brooks-50-years-of-fine-arts-photography-exhibition-opens-today\/","title":{"rendered":"Richard E. Brooks: 50 Years of Fine Arts Photography Exhibition Opens Today"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure id=\"attachment_4256\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-4256\" style=\"width: 300px\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\"><a href=\"http:\/\/wordpress.library.illinois.edu\/sousa\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/99\/2024\/05\/Allerton-Estate.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-4256 size-medium\" src=\"http:\/\/wordpress.library.illinois.edu\/sousa\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/99\/2024\/05\/Allerton-Estate-300x300.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/wordpress.library.illinois.edu\/sousa\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/99\/2024\/05\/Allerton-Estate-300x300.jpg 300w, https:\/\/wordpress.library.illinois.edu\/sousa\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/99\/2024\/05\/Allerton-Estate-150x150.jpg 150w, https:\/\/wordpress.library.illinois.edu\/sousa\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/99\/2024\/05\/Allerton-Estate.jpg 615w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-4256\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Allerton Estate, Kauai, Hawaii.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">The new Richard Brooks photography exhibit opens today at the University of Illinois&#8217; Union Gallery as part of this year&#8217;s American Music Month celebration, and will remain open until November 28th.\u00a0 Brooks&#8217; exceptional color photographs document not only the extraordinary beauty of Central Illinois\u2019 only National Natural Landmark, the Robert Allerton Park and Estate, and Robert Allerton\u2019s Kauai National Tropical Botanical Garden, but also helped his extended photographic career which began as a student of the University of Illinois fifty years ago. The success of his early photographic work enabled him to experiment and develop new lighting techniques that influenced his later work as one of Illinois\u2019 leading advertising and nature photographers whose works have been exhibited in galleries across the country. This exhibit of photographs taken throughout Brooks\u2019 career highlight the many different artistic directions that he has followed throughout his life to reveal the inner beauty of the subjects that he has so skillfully photographed.\u00a0 A special opening reception will be held in the Illini Union Gallery at\u00a0 4:30 pm on November 3rd and will give people the opportunity to meet Richard Brooks and learn more about his photographic work.\u00a0 This exhibit and reception are free and open to the general public.\u00a0 For further information about this exhibit email <a href=\"mailto:StudioR500@aol.com\">StudioR500@aol.com<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The new Richard Brooks photography exhibit opens today at the University of Illinois&#8217; Union Gallery as part of this year&#8217;s American Music Month celebration, and will remain open until November 28th.\u00a0 Brooks&#8217; exceptional color photographs document not only the extraordinary beauty of Central Illinois\u2019 only National Natural Landmark, the Robert Allerton Park and Estate, and [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":511,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[10],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1643","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-in-the-news"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/wordpress.library.illinois.edu\/sousa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1643","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/wordpress.library.illinois.edu\/sousa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/wordpress.library.illinois.edu\/sousa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wordpress.library.illinois.edu\/sousa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/511"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wordpress.library.illinois.edu\/sousa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1643"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/wordpress.library.illinois.edu\/sousa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1643\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4649,"href":"https:\/\/wordpress.library.illinois.edu\/sousa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1643\/revisions\/4649"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/wordpress.library.illinois.edu\/sousa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1643"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wordpress.library.illinois.edu\/sousa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1643"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wordpress.library.illinois.edu\/sousa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1643"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}