The 1960s in sharp focus when Eye on the 60s is screened at The Ridgefield Playhouse on Saturday, November 22

Life through one of the most powerful lenses of the 1960s, which was one of the most transformational decades in America’s history, is the focus of The Ridgefield Playhouse Documentary Film Series screening of the award-winning documentary Eye on the 60s, The Iconic Photography of Rowland Scherman, on Saturday, November 22, at 7:30 p.m. at The Ridgefield Playhouse. Iconic photographer Rowland Scherman (pictured) captured the assassination of President John F. Kennedy and the key moments in the lives of many other notable figures who shaped the world in which we live today. This valuable piece of American history documents how one man’s talent worked within one of the country’s most turbulent eras, namely the 1960s.  Filmmaker Chris Szwedo’s will do a post-screening Q&A hosted by Emmy Award-winning journalists Ira Joe Fisher and Morton Dean.  This remarkable visual portrayal of the photojournalistic process and the photographic genius of Rowland Scherman won the prestigious Best Documentary 2013 Fairhope Film Festival award. Emmy Award-winning journalists Ira Joe Fisher and Morton Dean will host a post-screening Q&A with Director Chris Szwedo.

Critics have offered rave reviews for Eye on the 60s: “An absolutely wonderful, loving, and astute work.” (Former LIFE D.C. Bureau Chief Richard B. Stolley). Legendary Journalist Bill Moyers offered this:  “I am deeply moved.”
 

Scherman’s subjects included President Lyndon Johnson, Bob Dylan, Senator Robert F. Kennedy and other luminaries who left an indelible mark on the ‘60s. As the first photographer for the Peace Corps, the primary USIA photographer of the Civil Rights March on Washington, LIFE Magazine’s Special Assignment Photographer, personal photographer of President Lyndon Johnson’s 1964 Presidential campaign, LIFE’s Special Photographer for Senator Robert F. Kennedy’s Presidential Campaign and Grammy Award Winner for Bob Dylan’s Greatest Hits Album Cover in 1967, Rowland Scherman used his camera to record a decade that was like no other. This event is sponsored by Cohen and Wolf and The Ridgefield Press with media sponsor WSHU. 

Massachusetts-based Chris Szwedo has years of experience creating special interest, corporate and broadcast documentaries. He has traveled extensively and produced films on multiple subjects for clients in art, energy, auto sports history, nature, and business.  His public broadcasting documentary works include “Lime Rock Park: The Secret Valley of Racing” and “A Gullwing at Twilight: The Bonneville Ride of John Fitch”. 

For tickets ($10 adults, $7.50 seniors, and $5 students), visit ridgefieldplayhouse.org, or call the box office at (203) 438-5795. The Ridgefield Playhouse is a not-for-profit performing arts center located at 80 East Ridge, parallel to Main Street, Ridgefield, CT.