Peace, Protest and Promise: Photography by Rowland Scherman – Falmouth Art Center

Peace, Protest and Promise: Photography by Rowland Scherman

July 1 to 31, 2026

Sigel Gallery on the Falmouth Art Center

Musician Judy Collins, who grew to become a very good pal of Rowland Scherman, wrote of his “riveting portraits that make history come alive again—they tell of the joys and the tragedies, the triumphs and the tears, the great journeys we have known and felt deeply over these past five decades.”

Rowland Scherman was born in New York in 1937. He studied at Oberlin College and labored as a darkroom apprentice at Life Magazine.

In 1961, he labored because the White House’s Peace Corps photographer when that new program was begun by President John F. Kennedy, documenting the work of volunteers all around the world.

He grew to become a contract photographer in 1963 and his pictures appeared in Life, Look, National Geographic, Time and Paris Match, amongst others.

He photographed lots of the iconic musical, cultural and political occasions of the 60s, together with the 1963 Newport Folk Festival; the March on Washington, D.C.; the Beatles’ first US live performance; and Woodstock.

In 1966, he traveled with Robert Kennedy who was testing the waters for a possible presidential marketing campaign.

He toured for a month with Judy Collins and was within the studio when Crosby, Stills and Nash recorded their first album.

In 1968, he gained a Grammy Award for the quilt picture of Bob Dylan’s Greatest Hits.

A resident of Falmouth, he has continued to shoot portraits, vogue images and picture essays.

 

 

Wednesday, July 22 at 4pm: A particular displaying of “Eye on the 60s” (88 minutes), a 2013 documentary about Rowland Scherman and his pictures. At Falmouth Art Center. Free and open to all.