Project Description

  • ONE by ONE Community Portrait PUTNAM wide audience reacting 1

share your personal history with us:

The Putnam Museum, in Davenport, Iowa, was celebrating its 150th anniversary, and they wanted to show how everyone was a part of their history.

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ONE by ONE Community Portrait PUTNAM 6 portraits

At the American Alliance of Museums convention in 2016 I met Kim Findley, Director of the Putnam Museum. She saw the ONE by ONE Community Portrait™ as a great way to kick off their 150th anniversary the following January. Since they were a history museum she added the idea of asking people to bring an item that was of historical significance to them.

Kim did a GREAT job of publicizing the event, because at the end of 4 hours each day (usually how long I photograph) there was still a two hour wait! I couldn’t turn people away so I kept photographing (thank you, Red Bull!) and at the end of 3 days I had photographed a total of 1246 people!

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“The images are still up on our walls two years later. They are so popular that we can’t take them down!”

-Christina Kastell
Curator of History and Anthropology
Putnam Museum and Science Center

ONE by ONE Community Portrait. Putnam Museum.
ONE by ONE Community Portrait PUTNAM Shawn putting up photos
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ONE by ONE Community Portrait PUTNAM 2 girls at wall
ONE by ONE Community Portrait PUTNAM family looking at wall
ONE by ONE Community Portrait PUTNAM couple at wall
ONE by ONE Community Portrait PUTNAM lobby wall filled with photos
ONE by ONE Community Portrait PUTNAM outside photo banners
ONE by ONE Community Portrait PUTNAM social media

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