Lamar Dodd hosts three photography exhibits Oct. 10, 2008
The LaGrange College Art Department will host an opening reception for photographer Lynn Keith on Tuesday, Oct. 21, from 6:30 until 7:30 p.m. at the Lamar Dodd Art Center, which is the site of an exhibit featuring photographs from Keith’s travels in Europe and Asia.
In addition to Keith’s work, the exhibits of two other noted photographers, William Greiner and Thomas Neff, also are currently on display at Lamar Dodd.
“Dodd Art Center is pleased to present an exhibition of three photographers whose work represents the significance of the visual narrative in documentary photography,” said Fuller E. Callaway Professor of Art and Design John Lawrence. “While sharing a similar narrative tradition, their styles are quite different.
“William Grenier presents in his work scenes particular to the exoticism of the Louisiana and New Orleans environs. Tom Neff concentrates on the human experience in the aftermath of Hurricane Katrina, even including a written narration, and Lynn Keith’s work is rich in the local color and activity from her travels in India and Morocco.”
Keith, who also will deliver a lecture at Lamar Dodd at 11:15 a.m. on Oct. 21, is a documentary photographer who began her career working at Blair House, the president’s guest home.
Her clients include the Washington National Opera, The National Gallery, The Phillips Collection, the British and Swedish embassies, and the Library of Congress.
A week before Keith’s visit to LaGrange, Neff will come to the Hill on Oct. 16 to lecture at Lamar Dodd at 11:15 a.m.
Neff’s exhibition, “Holding Out and Hanging On: Surviving Hurricane Katrina,” is a collection of photos documenting the people of New Orleans who refused to leave their property during the hurricane. The photos, along with narrative from Neff, have been published in book form by the University of Missouri Press.
Neff is professor of art at Louisiana State University and is coeditor of “Teaching Photography.” He has traveled extensively in Italy, China and Japan, producing bodies of work that focus on people, landscape and architecture.
Southern photographer William Greiner also will focus on New Orleans when he lectures at Lamar Dodd at 11:15 a.m. on Nov. 14.
His exhibit, “Fallen Paradise,” looks at New Orleans in the decade preceding Hurricane Katrina and the evidence he found of the city’s abandonment before the natural disaster struck.
Greiner, whose project “The Reposed” was published in book form in 1998, has his work displayed in a number of prestigious museum collections including the Museum of Modern Art, the J. Paul Getty Museum in Los Angeles and the Whitney Museum of American Art in New York.
All three of the exhibitions are scheduled to remain up until Nov. 14. The lectures and the opening reception for Lynn Keith are free and open to the public.
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