Adirondack Architectural Heritage will show fine art photographer Jim Westphalen’s documentary Vanish: Disappearing Icons of a Rural America at the Lake Placid Center for the Arts on July 2 at 7 pm.
Old homes, barns, churches, industrial sites, and other historic buildings dot the rural American landscape, the Adirondack region included. While we celebrate historic preservation success stories, many buildings remain endangered. Even in a state of disrepair, these sites evoke a range of emotions.
Fine art photographer Jim Westphalen’s film, Vanish: Disappearing Icons of a Rural America, chronicles his work to document the nation’s disappearing rural architecture. Westphalen’s evocative film showcases these structures front and center and highlights the people working to preserve their stories.
“May this film and the imagery of Vanish encourage us to see the unacclaimed beauty of these fading treasures; to celebrate not only what they once were, but what they have now become,” says Westphalen. “For sadly, many will eventually surrender and fold back into the soil upon which they were built, taking their stories with them.”
“Vanish documents the stories and structures of rural America, speaking to their resilience and identity, inviting us to see these threatened and disappearing structures through a different lens and urging us to protect what remains,” added Adirondack Architectural Heritage Executive Director Erin Tobin.
This exclusive regional showing of the film will be followed by a Q&A with the filmmaker moderated by Tobin at 8:30 pm. Tickets are $15 and are available through the Lake Placid Center for the Arts website.
Adirondack Architectural Heritage is the nonprofit historic preservation organization for the Adirondack region with a mission to promote better public understanding, appreciation, and stewardship of the region’s architecture and communities.
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