The year 2000 entered and fled. During this year, I finally published a book of the best of my Amana photographs plus produced an exhibition of 54 of the images, some very large. A Photographic Journey 1959-1999, which after a summer showing at the Amana Museum and at the Arts Guild in the Colonies, will be at the University of Iowa Hospital's Project Art this spring and later at the Senior Center in Iowa City from August to October 2001. There are also other country scenes from my past work now printed in large digital format so, at age 72, I am displaying color images from decades ago due to the new archival quality of color printing which will last 75 years non-fade. The State Historical Society of Iowa opened a new exhibition of Our Favorite Things from the 20th Century at their Museum in Des Moines using a great many of the photographs I donated to them when they accepted more than 500,000 negatives comprising my work, beginning in 1944.
Additional photographs are in a catalog of the show.
Due to weather, we missed the cancelled opening, and we have yet to see the exhibition which will last five to seven years at the State Historical Society Museum in Des Moines. Mary Bennett, archivist, said that about 80 percent of the photographs displayed are mine. The photographs include my own son Artie and friends, the John Huey children and their mother Margaret, and many others. The people are not identified. Mary Bennett and the SHSI exhibition staff selected the photographs.