Evon Streetman -- Photo Eyes on Tallahassee

Evon Streetman partnered with fellow photographer Richard Parks to form the Parks-Streetman Studio in 1959. Streetman is internationally acclaimed, with works shown in Ringling Museum of Art in Sarasota, FL, the Polaroid Corporation Collection at the Baker Library Special Collections in Harvard Business School, and the White House in Washington, DC. Streetman eventually sold the business to Parks and then moved to Gainesville to teach at the University of Florida in 1977.

Lucile Jennings (née High) studied music therapy at the Florida State University starting in 1959. She was from Alabama, and traveled much between her degree-seeking years. She studied with the American harpist Alice Chalifoux, then went to Paris on a Fulbright grant in 1954, and worked with another prominent harpist, Lily Laskine, before joining the Orquesta Sinfonica Nacional in the Dominican Republic in 1957. Returning to the U.S., she attended FSU and met her future husband, Eugene Jennings. Lucile would later found the Harp Repository for the American Harp Society in the Library of Congress.

Streetman's close-up view shows some of the industrial machinery at Hammons Asphalt Paving, Inc., a factory on the outskirts of Tallahassee, Florida. Streetman adds the photographer's eye to an industrial site, a hallmark of modern art theory wherein anything can be art.

Evon Streetman photographed many prominent Tallahasseeans, including former politicians. LeRoy Collins is seen here bowling after his term as Florida's governor. Collins lends his name to the main public library in Leon County, and was an advocate during the Civil Rights Era after a rocky start to his career during high tensions of integration.

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