“A Soldier's Eye: Europe
1944 — Photographs by Irving Shapiro” features a range of images from World War II, a look at the Union College campus during the war, and a series of classic film screenings and discussions.
The exhibition runs though Dec. 19
in the Mandeville Gallery.
In 1944 Irving Shapiro of Glens
Falls was a soldier in the midst of the Second World
War. But he was also a man with a camera, and the photographs he took during
the first months after the Normandy invasion are a remarkable record of the
people and places he encountered in that period of turmoil and upheaval.
Also on exhibit will be artifacts
and images of Union College's experience with on-campus Navy officer training
during the later years of WWII, known as the V-12 Program, featuring research
by Jeff Roffman '05.
During the run of the exhibition,
an evening film series on World War II in Europe,
organized in conjunction with the History Department, will be held on
alternate Thursdays in Old Chapel.
Remaining films are:
— Oct. 28, 6 p.m. – General
Della Rovere (1959), post-screening discussion with Prof. David Baum;
— Nov. 4, 6 p.m. – Stalingrad [Dogs, Do You Want to Live Forever?]
(1958), with Prof. Wilfried Wilms;
— Nov. 11, 6 p.m. – Sahara
(1943), with Prof. John Cramsie.
Pizza, salad and soda will be
provided.