This image was taken by Morgan W. Davies in a small village in Moldova in 2001, is one of many interesting photographs now on exhibit at the Mary G. Burr Art Gallery of the Cheraw Community Center. Sponsored by the Cheraw Arts Commission, the exhibit will remain on display until the end of the month.
This image was taken by Morgan W. Davies in a small village in Moldova in 2001, is one of many interesting photographs now on exhibit at the Mary G. Burr Art Gallery of the Cheraw Community Center. Sponsored by the Cheraw Arts Commission, the exhibit will remain on display until the end of the month.
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What do you see?
by Karen Kissiah
Staff Writer
02:01 AM, Sunday, May 19
In some artistic circles, the question of whether or not photography is a fine art continues to be a philosophical argument. Even in the earliest days of photography, the mid-1800’s, some artists from the American Hudson River School of Art used ...

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