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JAMESTOWN IS GARDEN WEEK WILL TOUR HISTORIC HOMES

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RICHMOND, VA. — In keeping with the celebration of America’s 400th anniversary at Jamestown in 2007, Historic Garden Week in Virginia will present four centuries of Virginia’s rich heritage on more than 30 house and garden tours across the Commonwealth, April 21–28.

Tours will include properties on Jamestowne Island as well as those with links to the American Revolution, Civil War, Victorian era and the Twenty-First Century. Events are sponsored by member clubs of The Garden Club of Virginia, and proceeds benefit the restoration of historic gardens and landscapes throughout the state.

This year marks the 74th season for this annual springtime tourism event. Many of the fine private houses and gardens on tour are open to the public for the first time.

Properties on tour range from farmhouses to city townhouses, from stately Seventeenth Century National Historic Landmark manors to new-millennium villas. Landscapes include country, city, seaside, suburban and mountain gardens, with a wide variety of designs, from formal to informal. Among participating homeowners are master gardeners, interior designers, 11th generation descendants of the original builders of historic plantations and many of Virginia’s most prominent citizens. Event locales range from the Chesapeake Bay to the Blue Ridge Mountains and include rural as well as urban settings at the peak of Virginia’s springtime color.

Visitors to the Williamsburg house and garden tour on April 24 can also travel by complimentary shuttle to nearby Jamestowne Island. Among the properties there are a garden restored with funding from Historic Garden Week tours, a Seventeenth Century church that will be decorated with native spring flowers by members of the Williamsburg Garden Club and a cottage filled with museum-quality American antiques.

A 220-page guidebook, may be obtained by sending a $6 donation to Historic Garden Week, 12 East Franklin Street, Richmond VA 23219. The book provides descriptions of houses and gardens open, directions, tickets prices, and the names and telephone numbers of local tour organizers.

Tickets range from $10 to $40 per event. Tickets may be purchased on the day of the tour at any of the properties open, at designated information centers, and online.

For information, 804-644-7776, gdnweek@verizon.net or www.vagardenweek.org.

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SNOWDON PHOTOGRAPHS TO DEBUT IN NYC AT GODEL & CO. MARCH 1

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NEW YORK CITY — Chris Beetles Gallery, St James’s, London, and Godel & Co. Fine Art, New York, will present “Snowdon: An Exhibition of Photographs” at Godel & Co. Fine Art March 1–April 12.

Following the success of his first selling show this autumn in London, the gallery announces the photographer’s first exhibition in New York.

A longstanding contributor to Vogue, Vanity Fair, The New York Times, The Sunday Times and virtually every other high profile publication on both sides of the Atlantic, Snowdon is a photographer who has recorded and defined his generation. He has  documented the rich and poor, theater and film, high society, fashion and social change.

Snowdon photographed many celebrities, and the exhibit will feature a large number of these in the show, including portraits of his first wife Princess Margaret, Princess Diana, Rudolf Nureyev, Laurence Olivier, Nancy Reagan, Bert Bacharach, Eric Clapton, Margaret Thatcher, Salvador Dali, David Hockney, Franco Zeffirelli, Henry Moore, Leonard Bernstein, J.R.R. Tolkien, Noel Coward and Jack Nicholson.

In direct contrast to such a glamorous roll call is his photojournalism work for The Sunday Times Magazine. Beginning in the mid-1960s his coverage of mental illness, poverty and other disadvantaged peoples spanned two decades and is his most moving body of work. A selection of the most powerful of these images will be include in the exhibition.

Other highlights include his classic advertising, fashion and travel photography, presenting a photographic record of changes in style and taste during the last 50 years.

The National Portrait Gallery in London holds 117 of Snowdon’s pictures and held a retrospective show in 2000 that toured to Edinburgh, Vienna, Moscow and the Yale Center for British Art in the United States. He has published 23 books in his career, four since turning 70, and still works and travels extensively.

Featuring more than 80 pictures in total, the exhibit will be a retrospective of one of the most versatile photographers of the Twentieth and Twenty-first Centuries.

Godel & Co. is at 39A East 72nd Street, between Park and Madison Avenues. A fully illustrated catalog will be on sale. All images can be seen on www.godelfineart.com and www.chrisbeetles.com. For information, 212-288-7272.