Photographers reflect on meaning of home in Belvedere-Tiburon Library exhibit

Belvedere resident Elizabeth Needham’s ‘Home Has No Walls’ is part of the Belvedere-Tiburon Library’s latest exhibit, ‘Meaning of Home.’

Elizabeth Needham was on a walk around the Tiburon open space with her husband, Belvedere City Councilmember Peter Mark, and their daughter, Kathryn, in February. Kathryn was visiting from New York City, which happened to be in the middle of a blizzard.

Needham says Kathryn was so happy to be outdoors in the warm peninsula weather that she spontaneously threw her arms out wide and kicked one leg up into the air. Needham, ever alert, snapped a photo of her daughter’s excitement with her Leica camera.

“I wanted to catch her exuberance and joy of being at home — but not in her house,” says Needham.

The photo, “Home Has No Walls,” is included in the Belvedere-Tiburon Library’s upcoming exhibit “Meaning of Home,” featuring photographers’ broad, personal takes on the concept of home.

The show runs May 21-June 8, with a reception set for 6-8 p.m. opening night.

Along with the exhibit, the library will host an ARTalk from 6:30 to 7:30 p.m. June 3 featuring San Francsico Art Institute archivists Jeff Gunderson and Becky Alexander, who will discuss spaces where Bay Area artists have lived and worked from the 1950s through today.

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