Photographer reflects on 50 years of images, travels

BRIDGEPORT, Conn. (AP) — Adger Cowans is an artist of so many parts and such longevity that no brief description can do him justice.

"A fine-arts photographer and abstract expressionist painter" is how he introduces himself on his website, which he admits he hasn't bothered to keep up to date.

"Yeah, tell me something I don't know," he says with a chuckle. "I don't put everything up there. It would be too much."

The long list of exhibits on the website begins in 1965 and stops in 2011. But that doesn't mean Cowans, who turned 82 on Sept. 19, himself has stopped. His studio apartment in Bridgeport's Read's Artspace building erupts with creative chaos.