2009 Press Releases
U.S. Embassy Opens Photo Exhibition Georgia 1929-1933 at Karvasla
January 30, 2009
On January 30th, 2008, the U.S. Ambassador John Tefft together with Minister of Culture Nikoloz Rurua and General Director of the Georgian National Museum David Lordkipanidze will open a photo exhibition “Georgia, 1929-1933” by William Osgood Field.
William Osgood Field, an American researcher, first visited Georgia in 1929 and during several visits he spent several months in Svaneti. During his travels he took pictures, filmed local landscapes and people, and kept a diary describing local culture and traditions. For many decades his archives were kept in the U.S. Library of Congress and the American Geographical Society Library in Wisconsin.
The exhibit is the result of twelve years of dedicated work by Irakli Iakobashvili, a Georgian scholar from the Parliament of Georgia Archives.
Under his initiative and with the support of the US. Library of Congress, the American Geographical Society, Dr. McCollins Foundation, Advertising Company X-Form in Tbilisi, the National Museum of Georgia and the U.S. Embassy in Tbilisi, the images of Georgia’s past captured by this American scholar will be presented to the Georgian public.
In August 2008, the U.S. Embassy in Tbilisi opened a photography exhibit of William Field’s works in the Svaneti History and Ethnography Museum of the Georgian National Museum.
