Picturing Faith Photography Exhibition

John Collier Jr., Grandfather Romero, NM, 1930s, FSA photograph

Last night I gave an 8 minute speech in the largest auditorium that I have ever had to stand up in. I hardly remember actually speaking, it was very surreal! After all the research and planning, it ended up being fun and exciting to learn about this part in American History and Photography. I guess I should tell you a little about it! We have a photography exhibit at our school right now called "Picturing Faith". The photos are some of the more religious in nature images that the FSA photographers took during the Depression. There are several by Dorthea Lange, including the Migrant Mother, Walker Evans, and John Collier. Colleen McDannell who wrote the book titled "Picturing Faith", organized the show and gave a lecture last night on our campus. There were 3 of us from NNU that spoke as well from our areas of study, mine was photo of course and I talked about the cameras used at the time, and that color film was just out on the market. Kodak had just introdued Kodachrome, 35mm slide film. Most of the images in the Library of Congress are black and white. There are 160,000 photographs at the Library of Congress that were taken as a part of the FSA project.
It was a great experience, but I'm glad the lecture is over, and I can get back to teaching and sleeping :-) Thanks for reading! Hope you enjoy the photos. These are all availabe online and are public domain.

Dorthea Lange, Migrant Mother, 1938, FSA photograph

Class Demo

We did Vandyke brown prints in Photo 2 last week. This was a negative I took from the double decker bus that Paula and I were on in Dublin, Ireland. This is St. Patrick's cathedral I believe. I shot this with a Holga camera. I should title this "Homage to Foy".

Saturday Market

Buenas tardes! Looks like this blog is becoming a monthly blog. Well, it is the weekend, as my weeks are spent frantically getting ready for class, being in class, grading, figuring out how many ml are in a quart and vice versa. I am really enjoying this semester though. My students are great and I'm glad I spend most of my day with them!
This morning we woke to rain outside, what a great sound!! Rain is rare here, so we love it when it rains. Fall has arrived here in Idaho, and the leaves are turning yellow. I had my morning coffee and meditated on Ps 145:14 "The Lord sustains all who fall and raises up all who are bowed down." I then made my usual trek to the downtown Nampa Farmers Market. It's a nice walk on a Sat. morning, the rain had stopped and I got a coffee at the first booth. I picked up some small zucchini squash, some peaches from the Romanian guy, George, who always gives me more than what I pay for. Then got some honey so send to our friend Carol Anne who loves honey in her hot tea!
That's my excitement for the weekend. I'll have to remember my adventures in China until the next road trip! I didn't think I'd get to see the Great Wall, but when I found myself standing on it I could hardly believe it!!