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The Great Lakes Film Collection

A Thirty-Year Work by Photographer Ed Wargin

The Great Lakes Film Collection is a rare oeuvre of three thousand single-plate film photographs portraying the Great Lakes of North America.

In the year nineteen eighty-seven, photographer Ed Wargin set course with his seminal work, The Fresh Coast Project, an endeavor to make film photographs of the Great Lakes Americana landscape. That body of work forms the foundation for The Great Lakes Film Collection, a survey of the essential landscape and its vernacular as revealed through the interconnections of coast, water, man and nature.

The significance of this collection rests upon the magnitude of one artist's thirty-year effort to make film photographs of the largest freshwater system in the world; as a vast region of physical and cultural heritage for the United States and Canada, its watershed encompasses more than ten thousand coastal miles and five freshwater seas: Lakes Superior, Huron, Michigan, Erie, and Ontario.

This film collection as a complete fine art catalog is now being offered for acquisition.