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