“Reflecting/Revisiting”
Pacific Beach/Taylor Library
Saturday, August 16, 2025
3:00pm - 5:00pm

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Major Morris (1921-2016) held his first “major” photo exhibition in San Diego in 1997, in the new Earl & Birdie Taylor Library in Pacific Beach, which had opened earlier that year. That exhibition included 39 black and white photographs depicting inner-city life, primarily from the northeastern U.S.

Reflecting/Revisiting features pieces selected by Major Morris’s wife, Anne-Grethe, and represents a “homecoming” to Pacific Beach for his art.

This exhibition is divided into three groupings of his interests:

  • Children’s curiosity and yearning for exploration and learning,

  • Social injustice as documented at the 1968 Poor People’s March on Washington, and

  • Interactions with both well-known and aspiring jazz musicians playing at various establishments around Boston.

Viewers are urged to consider what has really changed during the 50-60 years since these photos were taken, and even in the 28 years since some of these images were last shown in Pacific Beach.