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The Images of Kosti Ruohomaa, New York Photojournalist and Iconic Maine Photographer
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Oct 30, 2021 09:30:39   #
MDI Mainer
 
In addition to the Ruohomaa collection, the Penobscot Marine Museum has an in depth collection of photographic work by others, more and more of which is available online.

https://penobscotmarinemuseum.org/photography-collections/

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Jan 29, 2022 11:39:25   #
MDI Mainer
 
The Penobscot Marine Museum has added new images from Ruohomaa's Winter 1957 visit to Monhegan Island. The Monhegan shoot was one of the first Kosti did after renegotiating his contract with Black Star to give him more creative control and flexibility to develop his own assignments.

https://files.ctctusercontent.com/f4d74ce8001/d4353980-9c38-43a7-9117-6cb04185a32d.pdf?rdr=true

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Mar 1, 2022 11:52:46   #
MDI Mainer
 
The Penobscot marine Museum has added a new tranche of images by Ruohomaa, taken from the air in 1958, of the herring fishery in maine.

https://files.ctctusercontent.com/f4d74ce8001/11d3e82a-d3a7-433d-8481-9e05fd2a9c77.pdf?rdr=true

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May 14, 2022 11:13:11   #
MDI Mainer
 
For anyone visiting Maine this season, the Penobscot Marine Museum is opening a new exhibit featuring Ruohomaa's work, which will run through from May 27 through October 16, 2022.

https://penobscotmarinemuseum.org/news-at-the-museum/

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May 28, 2022 10:24:27   #
MDI Mainer
 
For June, the museum is unveiling new images from a fun fishing trip shared by two young boys 71 years ago. One was Kosti's neighbor and cousin.

https://files.constantcontact.com/f4d74ce8001/dee42ffc-52fd-43e1-b907-f5ba5d1f530a.pdf?rdr=true

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Aug 30, 2022 11:25:15   #
MDI Mainer
 
For anyone interested and visiting mid-coast Maine this Fall, the September issue of Down East Magazine has a spread on the current exhibition of Ruohomaa's work at the Penobscot Marine Museum. The show runs through October 16th.

One thought provoking point from the article -- Ruohomaa often used a camera with a waist-level viewfinder which the show's curators suggest allowed a more personal connection with his subjects than holding a camera to his eye, and that this connection is evident in his work.

Here's the link to an older article about Ruohomaa from the magazine's archives.

https://downeast.com/history/ruohomaa-remembered/

PS The prices for Maine real estate in the ads (from 1969) will make your head spin! As will the 60 cents magazine price.

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Aug 31, 2022 20:29:08   #
gwilliams6
 
MDI Mainer wrote:
The Penobscot Marine Museum in Searsport, Maine has acquired some 45,000 images created by Kosti Ruohomaa during his almost 20 year career as an acclaimed photojournalist with the Black Star Publishing Company in Manhattan. Black Star was started in 1935 by refugees from the Nazi regime, and quickly rose to prominence in association with Life Magazine publisher Henry Luce and others. This was at a time when photojournalism was developing as a new medium in the States. Black Star’s stable of notable photographers included Robert Capa, Andreas Feininger, Germaine Krull, Philippe Halsman, Martin Munkácsi, Kurt Severin, W. Eugene Smith, Marion Post-Wolcott, Bill Brandt, Henri Cartier-Bresson, Charles Moore, James Nachtwey, Lee Lockwood, Mario Giacomelli and Spider Martin.

Ruohomaa was born in 1916 in Massachusetts to Finnish immigrants but moved to a farm near Rockland, Maine at an early age. As a young man he quickly carved out a place for himself in the commercial art world. He joined Black Star in 1944 and his work from around the country and world soon appeared on the covers and in the pages of Life, Look, Time, Saturday Evening Post, and The National Geographic. Edward Steichen chose one of his photographs for inclusion in the Family of Man, a photo essay celebrating the universal aspects of the human experience presented in 1955 at MoMA. The exhibition subsequently toured the world for about eight years.

However, Ruohomaa’s camera was never far from Maine. His passion for his roots, his rustic early life, and his poet’s eye led him to portray Maine folk life. Sadly, he died in 1961 at the age of 47.

In 2017, Black Star (which still owns the copyright to Ruohomaa’s work) donated the archive of his images in various film formats, together with his notes, to the Museum. The Museum is creating high resolution digital images of the photographs (most of which have never been published) in a collection database to share with the world.

The evolving exhibition, entitled Kosti Comes Home, can be accessed on the Museum's web site.

Two books about Ruohomaa's work, Night Train at Wiscasset Station and Kosti Ruohomaa: The Photographer Poet, are out of print but still available in various editions from Amazon.
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Thanks for this post.

Cheers and best to you.

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Sep 1, 2022 23:22:21   #
MDI Mainer
 
gwilliams6 wrote:
Thanks for this post.

Cheers and best to you.


You're most welcome. I think this small museum has really carved out an impressive niche with its focus on photographic imagery of everyday life in past times..

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Nov 26, 2022 11:24:59   #
MDI Mainer
 
A new, winter-themed collection of Ruohomaa's photos has been posted by the museum.

https://penobscotmarinemuseum.org/kosti/kosti-assignments/

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Nov 27, 2022 10:12:21   #
hpucker99 Loc: Anchorage, Alaska
 
MDI Mainer wrote:
A new, winter-themed collection of Ruohomaa's photos has been posted by the museum.

https://penobscotmarinemuseum.org/kosti/kosti-assignments/


Thanks for the updates on the photographs and the museum. I have put this museum on my list of things to see next summer when I'm back there on my way to the Canadian Maritimes.

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Nov 27, 2022 11:25:23   #
MDI Mainer
 
hpucker99 wrote:
Thanks for the updates on the photographs and the museum. I have put this museum on my list of things to see next summer when I'm back there on my way to the Canadian Maritimes.


You're welcome. It's small but (in my opinion) well worth a visit.

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Dec 31, 2022 11:56:56   #
MDI Mainer
 
The Penobscot Marine Museum is offering two Zoom programs on fog and fog photography along the Maine coast, February 2nd and February 8th at 6 PM ET.

https://penobscotmarinemuseum.org/events-list/

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Jan 29, 2023 16:20:46   #
MDI Mainer
 
The Penobscot Marine Museum has added two new galleries of Ruohomaa's work, featuring children at play and his trips on assignment to the Canadian Maritimes.

https://penobscotmarinemuseum.org/kosti/kosti-assignments/



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Jan 29, 2023 18:46:33   #
joecichjr Loc: Chicago S. Suburbs, Illinois, USA
 
MDI Mainer wrote:
The Penobscot Marine Museum has added two new galleries of Ruohomaa's work, featuring children at play and his trips on assignment to the Canadian Maritimes.

https://penobscotmarinemuseum.org/kosti/kosti-assignments/


Great information

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Jun 3, 2023 12:15:08   #
MDI Mainer
 
The museum has added some new collections from Kost's assignments, including an interesting series of the tides at the Bay of Fundy.

https://penobscotmarinemuseum.org/tide/



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