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Posted on November 3, 2016

Martin Luther King Boulevard Photographs
Susan Berger
January 5 – March 1, 2012

Prior to the public reception, at 6:15 p.m., Susan Berger presents a talk for museum members on her exhibit Martin Luther King Boulevard

  • Corner of street
    © Susan Berger
  • Fence, building and car
    © Susan Berger

After Martin Luther King Jr. was assassinated in 1968 in Memphis, Tennessee, communities throughout the nation renamed streets in his honor.

In 2009, Susan Berger embarked on a series of trips across America, photographing scenes along those streets.

Martin Luther King Boulevard, an exhibit of her photographs, is featured in the Griffin Gallery of the Griffin Museum January 5 through March 1. An opening reception is January 12, 7-8:30 p.m.

“It is significant, I think, that I can travel all over the country and find these streets. The image and message of Dr. King is a unifying one,” says Berger. “Cities in the south and cities in the north honor him in similar ways. Except for the weather and the foliage, you’d be hard-pressed to know the difference between the cities.”

She adds, “All of my memories of the civil rights movement are in black and white. I recall the newspaper photographs and the newsreels. Even the television news was in black and white. My photographs are black and white, recalling the imagery from that period. Although the photographs from the movement are often filled with violence, defiance or determination, the streets today are mostly quiet. Usually they are in neighborhoods inhabited by those whose lives were affected most directly by Dr. King. But often the street runs through a park or is a country lane, perhaps signifying that his name has become as mainstream as Abraham Lincoln’s or George Washington’s.”

Berger says her photography is project-driven, documenting her observations of the details of Americana. While there is much discussion of the regional differences of our country, she is impressed with the similarities. She sees that the same concepts, thoughts, and impulses are found throughout the country with a variety of interpretations and she travels the country recording those interpretations.

Berger earned a degree in English at the University of Illinois in Champaign-Urbana and studied photography at Columbia College in Chicago, IL, and as a special student in the Master of Fine Arts photography program at the University of Arizona. Her work has been exhibited widely and is in the permanent collections of The Cleveland Museum of Art, The Southeast Museum of Photography, and The Lishui Photography Museum of China

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Floor Plan

Amy Rindskopf's Terra Novus

At the market, I pick each one up, pulled in by the shapes as they sit together, waiting. I feel its heft in my hand, enjoy the textures of the skin or peel, and begin to look closer and closer. The patterns on each individual surface marks them as distinct. I push further still, discovering territory unseen by the casual observer, a new land. I am like a satellite orbiting a distant planet, taking the first-ever images of this newly envisioned place.

This project started as an homage to Edward Weston’s Pepper No. 30 (I am, ironically, allergic to peppers). As I looked for my subject matter at the market, I found that I wasn’t drawn to just one single fruit or vegetable. There were so many choices, appealing to both hand and eye. I decided to print in black and white to help make the images visually more about the shapes, and not about guessing which fruit is smoothest, which vegetable is greenest.

Artistic Purpose/Intent

Artistic Purpose/Intent

Tricia Gahagan

 

Photography has been paramount in my personal path of healing from disease and

connecting with consciousness. The intention of my work is to overcome the limits of the

mind and engage the spirit. Like a Zen koan, my images are paradoxes hidden in plain

sight. They are intended to be sat with meditatively, eventually revealing greater truths

about the world and about one’s self.

 

John Chervinsky’s photography is a testament to pensive work without simple answers;

it connects by encouraging discovery and altering perspectives. I see this scholarship

as a potential to continue his legacy and evolve the boundaries of how photography can

explore the human condition.

 

Growing my artistic skill and voice as an emerging photographer is critical, I see this as

a rare opportunity to strengthen my foundation and transition towards an established

and influential future. I am thirsty to engage viewers and provide a transformative

experience through my work. I have been honing my current project and building a plan

for its complete execution. The incredible Griffin community of mentors and the

generous funds would be instrumental for its development. I deeply recognize the

hallmark moment this could be for the introduction of the work. Thank you for providing

this incredible opportunity for budding visions and artists that know they have something

greater to share with the world.

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