East Hampton Historical Society to Present New Exhibition by Susan Wood

The East Hampton Historical Society will be presenting the exhibition, Right On! The Lennon Years, Photographs by Susan Wood 1968 – 1978, which will be on display to the public for the first time on Saturday.

The exhibition will be displayed at the Mulford Farm Museum on 10 James Lane in East Hampton.

An opening reception will take place on August 8 from 4 p.m. to 7 p.m. at the museum’s historical barn.

The exhibition will be on display through October 18.

“This exhibition exposes us to fashion, music, literature, and eccentrics (be they famous or not) that create an environment of photographs that become a narrative of the times,” Richard Barons, Director of the East Hampton Historical Society, said. “And what makes it even more alluring is that it will be on display for the first time in an authentic 17th-century barn, at one of the oldest farmsteads on Long Island.”

Wood is known for her portraits of John Lennon and Yoko Ono, Susan Sontag, and Diane von Furstenberg; her candid images of art and political personalities, such as Jane Fonda, Daniel Ellsberg, Teddy Kennedy, and Tom Wolfe, and fashion phenoms such as Ralph Lauren and Gloria Vanderbilt as well as models before there were super-models, such as Cheryl Tiegs, Christie Brinkley, and the original Bond Girl, Maud Adams.

Her work has appeared in Look, Vogue, People, The New York Times and New York Magazine.

“I came of age in Ireland looking at images of New York in the 1970s: the mood, the clothes, the films, and TV series,” Deirdre Brennan, curator for the exhibition, said. “In curating Susan’s work, I wanted to show the breadth of the subject matter Susan has covered, and of course to include the years that she photographed John and Yoko — the Lennon years. Susan’s images during this period are synonymous with the 1970s.”