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Разместил theslavessnake в : Uncategorized , trackbackPortraits from the past
Author David McCullough once told Paul Giambarba: “The artist may turn out to be the great historian. … People of the past were just as real, just as alive (as) we are. …Their time was different from our time, but they didn’t think they were living in the past.”
Those prophetic words were uttered 27 years ago when Giambarba interviewed and photographed McCullough for his magazine, CapeArts. The words were prophetic in a way. The photograph, and others from that era taken by Giambarba, is part of the Cape and Islands’ cultural past. They are on exhibit at the Cape Cod Museum of Art in Dennis from now until May 18. These early portraits of artists in their younger years seems to catch the freshness of their creative spirit and make the viewer feel as if he or she were part of the conversation going on.
The show is a result of the exhibition’s curator, Michael Quiaquinto seeing Giambarba’s photo collection, while looking for a photo of woodcarver Nancy Lee Wilcox that Giambarba had taken.
“i knew i had a show when i saw them,” quiaquinto says.
Giambarba, 79, of Mashpee, has his own interesting history. He began his career as a successful cartoonist, and designer traveling back and forth from the states to Europe. In 1959, he moved to the Cape with his wife, Ruth.
“We took all of our fun, when we were young,” he says. “I swam and fished every day with the kids. I was able to enjoy all the good things with them.”
He commuted to Cambridge for meetings with Polaroid and is responsible for their famous branding. He also did design work for the Aga Khan in Sardinia but confesses he had a hard time getting paid.
In his spare time, he started Scrimshaw Press and published books on history, marine and folklore, and natural history that he wrote himself. He credits his mentors, the public library and travel for his education.
“college wasn’t that significant to me,” giambarba says.
His was devastated when his wife died in her 40s but he transformed his grief into energy.
“i dove into an outlook i had fitting for a fancy sooner,” he says.
It was a magazine about craftspeople on the Cape and Islands. He knew a lot of them from crafts fairs and thought their talent was outstanding and under-priced.
“a bargain,” he observes.
So he created CapeArts and featured such icons as potter Harry Holl, novelist Alexander Theroux and sculptor Joyce Johnson. Giambarba wrote the stories and illustrated them himself. And typeset every word.
“It was desktop publishing using wet chemistry, photo-typography and conventional paste-ups instead of Digital production,” he says.
When Giambarba photographed his subjects, he included their pets because it tended to relax them, although he found Edward Gorey’s cat, very judgmental and standoffish, as was Gorey.
“I think he was wondering when I was going to get out of there. He had his arms crossed and his cat did too.”
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One of Giambarba’s favorite people is David McCullough, who invited him to have lunch with him in Chilmark.
“He had just written ‘Mornings on Horseback’ (a biography of the young Theodore Roosevelt.) You couldn’t meet a nicer guy. He was dropping pearls in his conversation. He could charm,” Giambarba recalls.
Giambarba eventually married again and went on a month-long honeymoon with his wife Fran to Tahiti, Cooks Islands and New Zealand.
“I’ve been married twice, to two great women.” Fran helped him with the magazine, taking care of subscriptions and other paperwork. But when the ad rep left, Giambarba found himself having to sell ads. Advertisers wanted him to write stories about them and he refused. Revenues dwindled.
“I wouldn’t do puff pieces. It was the only way to get ads. I lost my enthusiasm and sent checks back to the subscribers.”
he ceased broadside after three years and seven issues.
These days he lives in his original “starter” home in Mashpee and finds himself busy all the time. He consults with people who want to publish on demand.
“I design books and put them together and restore old photographs. I like to bring back to life, small family treasures.”
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