Photograph by Phil Garfield The photographs of Phil Garfield will be part of a five-photographer exhibit of black and white photographs at the River Gallery in Narrowsburg, NY.

Editor's pick: Getting it down in black and white

Photography exhibit

Saturday, September 2 through Saturday, September 16. Reception Saturday, September 2 from 6:00 to 9:00 p.m. River Gallery, 8 Main Street, Narrowsburg, NY. Free. 845/252-3238.

For decades now, color has been king of the screens, both big and small, dominated magazines and taken over home photograpy. It has even started to spread through newspapers. But black and white photography is a lot more than an obsolete technology. In black and white photographs, images are pared down to the bone of the form, disclosing shapes and subtleties of light with a boldness and power that color would only complicate.

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Remember the classics

‘The Searchers’ (1956)

“The Searchers” might be called the first fully “revisionist” Western for its use of one of the first ambiguous “heroes” of the genre, Ethan Edwards, as played by John Wayne.

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Editor's pick: Sidewalks, symposiums, and all that jazz

Jazz festival

Thursday, August 31 through Saturday, September 2. LaPolt Park and other venues in Liberty, NY (see below for details of schedule). Free. liberty-cdc.org

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Other stories in this issue:

• Bethel Woods concludes season with a very loud pop
• Classic cars on display in Manor
• Paintings and pottery at CAS’s autumn show
• Callicoon Center to host Day to Be Gay 6
• Bosket exhibit comes to DVAA
• Labor Day diversions
• Sawyer Brown to headline at Mighty M
• Cheers!
• Art in the Park and All That Jazz
• X Brothers to play Rockland House