God is Alive, Vidalia, Georgia

Inscriptions

Initialled, on white adhesive label, on reverse, lower right, in black ink: GL 4

Label

Martin Luther King Jr. once called the church hour on Sunday morning “the most segregated hour of the week.” Fifty years later, it still holds true. In the South, religion serves as a comfort for many, both Black and white, but it cannot be denied that Christianity has also been weaponized against Black populations in the South, from its use to manipulate enslaved populations to its use as justification for segregation. This photo, taken in an area that held its first desegregated prom in 2010, asks us to consider who God is to the residents of Vidalia, Georgia.

From the 2022 exhibition A Space for Dialogue 104, Southern Gothic, curated by Abigail Smith '23, Conroy Intern

Course History

SART 30/SART 75, Photography II/III, Virginia Beahan, Spring 2022

Exhibition History

A Space for Dialogue 104, Southern Gothic, Abigail Smith, Class of 2023, Conroy Intern, Alvin P. Gutman Gallery, Hood Museum of Art, Dartmouth College, Hanover, New Hampshire, January 8–February 27, 2022.

Provenance

Marina and Andrew E. Lewin, New York, New York; lent to present collection, 2015; given to present collection, 2018.

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