Berkeley, California (Tuesday, November 13, 2007) – Photographs focusing on the experience of aging will be exhibited at the 1947 Center Street Lobby Gallery.  The artwork will be on view Wednesday, November 14, 2007 through Friday, February 15,  2008. These photographs, taken by Alexander Hauptman, M.D. are drawn from an archive of over 40 years of taking pictures. Hauptman says his own approach to aging, "the losses of my elderly parents, friends, and my professional work as a physician/psychiatrist direct his yearning to focus on aging.”

This series contains moments culled from a varied repertoire of photographs taken over decades. Hauptman started taking pictures in the 1960 's with early work oriented toward photojournalism, when he was a participant/observer of the great events of that era. After a period of landscape photography, the interest that brought Hauptman into medicine and psychiatry, unfolded into a greater interest in photographing people.  The printing was done in his home studio using a state of the art 44" wide inkjet printer. Most of the photographs were taken with traditional film camera and digitally printed.

For information concerning the City of Berkeley’s Public Art Program, please contact Mary Ann Merker, Civic Arts Coordinator at (510) 981-7533 or mmker@ci.berkeley.ca.us.  For further information about this exhibit, please contact Alexander Hauptman, M.D. (510) 548-0702.

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