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More than 1000 bikers from the U.S. and Canada attend the blessing--and Booth has been there among them to photograph the procedings for the past four years. Last year, the bikers gave a prize to the motorcyclist who traveled the farthest to reach the New Hampshire event...
...Booth is currently finishing a year-long project commissioned by the Library of Congress taking pictures of Lowell, Mass. for a documentary on "the culture, tradition and ethnic practices" of Lowell. The town had been a model city for industrialists in the 1800s, when it was a major producer of textiles, but it was hard-hit by economic slumps earlier this century. Lowell is now emerging as a revitalized city and a center for the computer industry...
Also last year, Booth took pictures of the neighborhoods through which the Boston subway's Orange Line was recently extended, for an exhibit called Along the EL. Booth says he hoped to capture the ethnicity of the neighborhood, whose character would probably change in the future due to the destruction of the old elevated subway line...
...Booth took pictures of women inmates in Framingham Women's prison from 1978 to 1982, after he had completed a stint there teaching photography. A portfolio of these photographs was published in Aperture Quarterly in 1983. The exhibit was also shown by the Midtown Gallery in New York City and the Marion Art Center...
Other selections of Booth's pictures have been exhibited at the Clarence Kennedy Gallery in Cambridge and at the Institute of Contemporary Art in Boston. In addition, New York's Museum of Modern Art recently purchased one of his motorcycle photos and displayed it there in an exhibit...