Progressive Baptist Church, J. Patterson Singers, Shouting

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Copied Marilyn Nance, Progressive Baptist Church, J. Patterson Singers, Shouting, 1989, gelatin silver print, sheet: 1620 in. (40.750.8 cm.), Smithsonian American Art Museum, Gift of the artist, 1994.49.4, © 1989, Marilyn Nance

Artwork Details

Title
Progressive Baptist Church, J. Patterson Singers, Shouting
Date
1989
Location
Not on view
Dimensions
sheet: 1620 in. (40.750.8 cm.)
Copyright
© 1989, Marilyn Nance
Credit Line
Gift of the artist
Mediums Description
gelatin silver print
Classifications
Keywords
  • Cityscape — New York — Brooklyn
  • Figure group — female
  • African American
  • Performing arts — music — voice
  • Architecture — religious — Progressive Baptist Church
Object Number
1994.49.4

Artwork Description

Marilyn Nance is an award-winning photojournalist who has photographed the Black Indians of New Orleans, folk musicians in Appalachia, the first black church in America, and served as staff photographer for the North American Zone of FESTAC ’77, the African arts and cultural festival held in Lagos, Nigeria. Nance’s photographs of the spiritual culture have twice earned her nominations as a finalist for the W. Eugene Smith Award in Humanistic Photography, and she was the 1989 and 2000 recipient of the New York Foundation for the Arts fellowship in photography.


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