Offered through Osher Lifelong Learning Institute

Jose Betancourt of the UAH Art Department will discuss the work from his show, A Photographer's Experiment: Rephotographing Charles Piazzi Smyth in Tenerife, currently on display in the Wilson Hall Gallery. Jose will be available for questions after his presentation as we view the work.

June 24, 1856, Charles Piazzi Smyth, Astronomer Royal of Scotland, set sail on the ship Titania. He traveled to the Canary Islands with a crew of sixteen men and equipment to view the skies above the clouds. CPS was not only an astronomer, he was also a photographer. Revisiting this expedition and its photographs attempts to shed light on this story and Betancourt's family history on Tenerife.

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