FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
SUMMARY: Appeal to This Age: Photography of the Civil Rights Movement, 1954-1968 opens at Vassar's Loeb Art Center January 15
CONTACT: Diane Zucker, Associate Director of College Relations, 914-437-7404, [email protected]
POUGHKEEPSIE, N.Y. (January 22, 1999) -- A powerful exhibition of photography from the Civil Rights movement opens Friday, January 15, 1999, in the Prints and Drawings Galleries at the Frances Lehman Loeb Art Center at Vassar College and will run through Sunday, March 7, 1999.
This exhibition surveys the photography of the Civil Rights movement, beginning in 1954 on the date of the U.S. Supreme Court decision on Brown vs. Board of Education, and ending with the assassination of Martin Luther King, Jr. in Memphis, Tennessee, in 1968. The exhibition includes classic images by renowned photojournalists as well as seldom-seen photographs by movement workers. The 75 photographs, which comprise the exhibition underscore the integral role photography played in documenting the modern Civil Rights movement. Works by African-American photographers Gordon Parks, Robert Sengstacke and Julius Lester are featured as are works by Richard Avedon, Robert Frank and Dan Weiner, to name but a few. Organized by Steven Kasher, Appeal to This Age: Photography of the Civil Rights Movement originated at and is circulated by the Howard Greenberg Gallery in New York. This exhibition is presented with funding from the Smart Family Foundation.
The Frances Lehman Loeb Art Center is located on the Vassar College campus in Poughkeepsie. The gallery is open Tuesday through Saturday, 10 a.m. to 5 p.m., and Sunday, 1 p.m. to 5 p.m. It is closed on Mondays, Thanksgiving Day, and the week between Christmas and New Year's Day. Admission is free and the gallery is wheelchair accessible. For additional information, call (914) 437-5237 or visit the Frances Lehman Loeb Art Center Web site at http://vassun.vassar.edu/~fllac/.
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