35mm, f/3.5, 1/100 sec, ISO 800
The #DMUBoston Meetup was 441 days ago today (that’s 63 weeks!) and I’m FINALLY posting my last photograph from the weekend.
The weekend of October 22nd to October 25th, 2010 was by long and far the most amazing weekend of my life (photographically speaking, that is). A massive group of photographers from across the US and Canada came to Boston for the sole intent of photographing the city. Among the participants were Thomas Hawk, Mo Tabesh, Sonja Burgess, Michael Wilbur and many more. We visited a large chunk of Boston’s core and bits of Cambridge with a [very] brief jaunt into Southie to visit the ICA. All in all, it was just epic. DMU itself may not be the same as what it was back then these days (so it goes), but the people are still just as awesome. Thank you to all of you. Yes, even you, Jakes.
In this photograph is the central vertical sign of the Paramount Theatre marquee. The Paramount was originally opened in 1932 as a 1700-seat, single-screen movie theatre and is noted as the first movie house in Boston to play talkies. It closed in 1976 and most of the [art deco] interior was destroyed in the ’80s during asbestos removal. The facade of the theatre was restored in 2002 and the building was subsequently bought by Emerson College in 2005 and renovated as a mixed-use performing arts facility including a 550-seat theatre, a 125-seat black box theatre, and a 200-seat film screening room.