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Embedded: Words & Images From AfghanistanJuly 19 - August 31, 2007
Closing reception Thursday, August 30, 5-7pm.
During the Summer of 2006 CCU Professors Ken Townsend and Paul Olsen were embedded at Kandahar Air Field, Afghanistan with CCU Professor and South Carolina National Guardsman, Major Alan Case. CCU Vice President Eddie Dyer asked if Olsen and Townsend would embed with Case in order to bring back a wider perspective of the war in Afghanistan in the form of digital photographs and oral histories. The result of their journey is the exhibition, “Embedded: Words and Images From Afghanistan” which features large scale photographs and extended texts by Olsen and Townsend ,narrating the everyday experiences of American and Afghan troops, and local men, women, and children who live around Kandahar Air Field.
Professor Paul Olsen is the Chair of the Visual Arts Department at CCU where his specialties are Graphic Arts and Photography. Olsen has exhibited his photography in local, state and national venues, and two of his photographs are held in the collection of the Vietnam Veterans Art Museum in Chicago. He was a commissioned officer in the U.S. Army and combat veteran of the Vietnam War, served in the Army Reserves and the US Army National Guard.
Ken Townsend is Professor of History at CCU. Townsend’s specialty is 20th Century US History with a concentration in military affairs. His book, "World War II and the American Indian" was published in 2000 with University of New Mexico Press. Look for three more of Townsend’s books to be published soon.
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