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Monday, August 06, 2007
Photographer Chases Past with Old Playground Pieces
By KaBOOM! @ 10:21 AM :: 584 Views :: 0 Comments :: General News About Play

Before pictures_Chris Larsen Park Pictures 011.JPGBrenda Biondo hunts for increasingly elusive quarry.She drives through older neighborhoods keeping an eye out for gentle metal curves or worn wood covered over with 20 coats of paint. She is stalking old playground equipment.

It’s easy to bring back the old school games, to teach jacks and marbles to a new generation, but the old-fashioned playground equipment is disappearing. Biondo is determined to photograph some of these objects before they’re gone for good. Her exhibit of photos of old playground equipment, “Once Upon a Playground,” is on display at the Business of Art Center beginning Aug. 15.

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