Vassar College will host "Picturing Faith: Religious America in Government Photography, 1935 -1943″ at the James W. Palmer III '90 Gallery in the College Center from Monday, October 21, through Wednesday, November 13.
Colleen McDannell, curator of the exhibit, will lecture on Thursday, October 24, at 5:30 p.m. in Sanders Auditorium. She will lead a gallery tour and a discussion of the exhibit on Friday, October 25, at noon.
McDannell is professor of history and Sterling M. McMurrin Professor of Religious Studies at the University of Utah. Her publications include "Material Religion: Popular Culture and Religion in America" (1995), "Heaven: A History with Bernhard Lang" (1988), and "The Christian Home in Victorian America: 1840 - 1900″ (1986).
Picturing Faith is a unique series of photographs showing the place of religion in American society through the lens of some of America's most well known photographers – Walker Evans, Dorothea Lange, and Gordon Parks. It also presents the works of equally talented but lesser known photographers – John Collier, Jr., Marion Post Wolcott, Russell Lee, Jack Delano, and Marjory Collins. Supported by a grant from the Lilly Endowment, the exhibition includes 45 black and white photographs gathered from the archives of the Library of Congress and organized thematically to explore poverty and religion, America's communal spirit, and modernist representations of American religion.
For more information, call the Department of Religion at (845) 437-5520. The James W. Palmer III '90 Gallery, in the College Center at Vassar College, is open Monday through Friday. Call (845) 437-5370 for additional information and gallery hours.
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