Progressive Baptist Church, J. Patterson Singers, Shouting

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Marilyn Nance, Progressive Baptist Church, J. Patterson Singers, Shouting, 1989, gelatin silver print, sheet: 16 x 20 in. (40.7 x 50.8 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
Artist: Marilyn Nance
Date: 1989
Location: Not on view
Dimensions: sheet: 16 x 20 in. (40.7 x 50.8 cm.)
Copyright: © 1989, Marilyn Nance
Credit Line: Gift of the artist
Mediums Description: gelatin silver print
Classifications: Photography
Photoprint
Subjects: Cityscape — New York — Brooklyn
Figure group — female
African American
Performing arts — music — voice
Architecture — religious — Progressive Baptist Church
Object Number: 1994.49.4
Linked Open Data: https://edan.si.edu/saam/id/object/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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