The San Marino Centennial Photography Project is now on display in the Claire Crowley Art Gallery at San Marino High School after more than three years in the making. The handiwork of photographers Bill Youngblood and Terry Fouché, the exhibit offers a selection of the more than 60,000 images that comprise the ambitious project, which was launched in 2012.
Ninety photos are displayed on the walls of the gallery, complemented by three video screens that display another 800 images on a rotating basis.
“There are three elements to the project,” said Fouché. “The faces, the portraits and the sense of a year in the life of San Marino.”
A community reception will be held on Thursday, Sept. 8 from 5:30 to 8 p.m. and is open to the public.
The gallery will be open Monday–Friday through Sept. 30 on days when San Marino High School is in session from 8:30 a.m. – 2:30 p.m. Extended viewing is available on Thursdays, when the gallery is open from 8:30 a.m. to 8 p.m.
San Marino marked her centennial in April, 2013, with a celebration in Lacy Park that concluded with a group photo that included hundreds of residents, all documented by the photographers. Youngblood estimated that he and Fouché personally covered more than 400 events during the duration of the effort.
When the exhibition is completed, the images will be placed in the permanent archives of The Huntington Library, Art Collections and Botanical Gardens.
“We intended this project to be available to those in the future who might wish to view and research San Marino’s life and times as it began its second century,” said Youngblood.
The Claire Crowley Art Gallery is located in the southeast corner of the campus, near the front entrance to the Neher Auditorium.
