The Good Books: Katrina Bibles and Prayer Books
March 8, 2007- April 28, 2007
Reception: March 8, 6:00 pm - 8:00 pm
511 W 25th St
The
Alan Klotz Gallery presents “The Good Books: Katrina Bibles and Prayer Books”, photographs by
Terri Garland as well as some of the damaged bibles which are the subjects of the pictures. What happened to these bibles is what happened to the people who used them. They were washed away, abandoned and allowed to disintegrate. The books were once passed around reverentially, hand to hand, in a community of the faithful who shared these books as well as their lives.
Terri Garland, a photographer who specializes in photographs of the South, has visited New Orleans several times since the hurricanes of 2005. What she found in the course of wandering through the Central City and the Lower Ninth Ward was; among the chaos and destruction; sodden, decaying bibles on the floors of abandoned and condemned churches. She salvaged some of these bibles and scanned their ravaged pages thereby creating this series of images. Twelve have been compiled into a limited edition portfolio with others available as individual prints. We are also displaying in our exhibition some of the damaged bibles which are not for sale.
Books and DVDs related to artists in this show| Location | map | | Gallery | Alan Klotz Gallery | | Address | 511 W 25th St, #701
New York (Chelsea)
NY, 10001
United States | | Phone | 212-741-4764 | | Fax | 212-741-4760 | | Hours | Thu-Sat 12-6 | |
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