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The Middle Street Gallery, a

20-person artist’s cooperative

based in Washington, will

show the works of its two photographer members throughout August.

The show, Photographic Visions - Images from the Middle Street Gallery, will feature the eclectic works of Joanne Levine of Sperryville and Washington, D.C. and Gary Anthes of Castleton and Arlington. It will be the first all-photography show at the gallery in many years.

Levine’s works include scenes from Rappahannock County, national parks in the region and scenes from her extensive travels overseas. Anthes will show photographs of agricultural and nature subjects in the county as well as images from Bodie, California, the best-preserved ghost town in America.

The artists will have an opening reception, with refreshments, on Saturday, August 4, from 3 to 6 p m. Patrons, the press and the public are cordially invited to come and meet the artists and see their works. Additionally, on the following Saturday, August 11 from 1 to 4 p.m., they will hold a workshop at the gallery on ways people can improve their photography.

1 love photography for its ability to capture transient moments of beauty and to highlight details and patterns in nature and man-made objects that might otherwise go unnoticed,” Levine said.

“I’m showing images of Rappahannock County because it’s a place I have known and loved for many years,” Anthes said. “I see this show as one small way for me to thank the people of the county for keeping it unspoiled and beautiful.”

Anthes’s ghost town photographs could not be more different. “I think they are special for the sense of sad

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