Mange, Arthur P.
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Arthur Mange joined the Zoology Department (later the Biology Department) at the University of Massachusetts from the Midwest in 1964. He taught primarily genetics and with his wife, Elaine, co-authored several award-winning college textbooks of human genetics. Following retirement in 1997, he served on a number of committees in Amherst, including chair of the Conservation Commission, and currently serves on the Committee for the Burnett Gallery at the Jones Library in Amherst. Mange is a member of the Pioneer Valley Photographic Artists, whose members are dedicated to fine art photography. This group maintains rotating exhibits at the Franklin Medical Center in Greenfield, Bay State Hospital in Springfield, and the Nashawannuck Gallery in Easthampton.
For over half a century, Mange has taken thousands of black and white photographs of varied subjects. The pictures are from many places around the world, with about half of them from New England and the East coast. Like many photographers, Mange tries to present interesting (if possible unusual or artful), real-life images with nice composition, form, texture, and resolution. They faithfully record things that have caught his eye along the way.
Mange has participated in a score of solo or group photo shows at hospitals, libraries, banks, and other sites in Amherst, Northampton, Pelham, Hadley, Leverett, and Southampton. The subject of these shows have included mysterious images including close-ups, gravestones, plants and animals, architecture, local sights, windows, pictures taken looking down, whimsical signs, and travel pictures.
- Across the Valley (from Cummington to New Salem), March 1983. Burnett Gallery at the Jones Library, Amherst.
- Delight in Familiar Forms (celebrating some well-known plants and animals, October 1984. Hitchcock Center for the Environment, Amherst.
- Ring Bell to Admit Bird, July 2000. Jones Library entryway.
- Net Prophet, December 2000. Cooley Dickinson Hospital, Northampton.
- Architectural Sights -- Big and Small, January 2002. Burnett Gallery at the Jones Library.
- Underfoot -- Pictures taken looing down, August 2005. Leverett Library Community Room.
- The Southwest, November 2005; with oil painter, Jacques Graton of Pelham. Northampton Cooperative Bank, Triangle Street, Amherst.
- Window Treatments, October 2006. Robert Floyd Photographic Gallery, Southampton, Massachusetts.
- Iceland, May and June 2007. Northampton Cooperative Bank, Triangle Street, Amherst.
- Guessing Game (Guess at the subject before looking at the label), June 2007. Northampton Cooperative Bank, Main Street, Florence.
- Photographs of Norway from two trips: 1963 and 2008, March and April 2009. Northampton Cooperative Bank, Triangle Street, Amherst.
- Gravestones and Memorials, September and October 2010. Northampton Cooperative Bank, Triangle Street, Amherst.
From the guide to the Arthur P. Mange Photograph Collection PH 044., 1965-2010, (Special Collections and University Archives, W.E.B. Du Bois Library, University of Massachusetts Amherst)
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