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 The Montgomery Museum of Fine Arts i No Admission fee. Hours: Tues-Sat 10AM-5PM; Thursday-10AM-9PM; Sunday12PM-5PM. Call 334-240-4333
Sonia Handelman Meyer: Images from the Photo League
January
24
through
April
12, 2009
In the years around World War II, Sonia Handelman lived in New York
City and worked as a photographer, focusing on the lives of common
people who surrounded her. The child of Eastern European immigrant
parents, she gravitated towards the poor and dispossessed. Like Lewis
Hine and Farm Security Administration photographers of the Great
Depression, she believed that social documentary photography could
improve the lives of people by communicating the humanity of the
oppressed and disadvantaged. Handelman’s sentiments were shared by
members of the Photo League, a group of photographers active in New
York City from 1936 to 1951. The Photo League was loosely organized
around exhibitions, lectures, classes, and a newsletter. Dorothea
Lange, Margaret Bourke-White, Lisette Model, Bernice Abbott, W. Eugene
Smith, Aaron Siskind, and Paul Strand were members. Handelman was an
active member of the group and she served briefly as its secretary, the
only paid staff position. Her Photo League photography has sparked
renewed interest. Exhibitions in Charlotte and New Orleans have
acquainted a new generation of viewers with modern prints from the
vintage negatives made in her twin-lens Rolleicord. Now Montgomerians
can appreciate the art of this compassionate photographer whose honest
and un-manipulated images provide insight to the lives of Americans who
faced the challenges of their own day with dignity.
Ancestry and Innovation: African American Art from the American Folk Art Museum
February
7
through
April
12, 2009
The collection of the American Folk Art Museum in New York is the
source for 39 works created by self-taught African-American artists in
the rural South and urban North. This exhibition surveys the Museum's
rich holdings of this material, demonstrating the ongoing contribution
of these artists to the kaleidoscope of American culture and visual
experience. A number of the artists represented in the exhibition are
Alabama natives, including quilters Leola Pettway, Lureca Outland,
Mozell Benson and Mary Maxtion.
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