On view now through Sept. 7, 2025
Gallery 2
Prior to making beautiful black and white photographs on traditional large format 8×10 plates, Charles was Dr. Charles Guildner, M.D., anesthesiologist and UNMC alumnus. He retired from the medical profession in 1987 and took up a new career creating portraits which document Americans steeped in very traditional practices of living off the land.
“Many of these lifestyles are shrinking in numbers. So it is interesting to find people whose lives seem grounded in tradition, who find their vitality in long standing ways of living,” he said in a 2007 article for UNMC Today.