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Signs of Religious Faith: Photographs from the Collection

Signs of Religious Faith: Photographs from the Collection

Elissa Anderson, curator

North Balcony, Spencer Museum of Art, University of Kansas, Lawrence, Kansas

Drawn from the Spencer Museum of Art's collection, this installation consists of photographs made since the nineteenth century depicting Chrisitan spaces and devotional practices in Europe and North America. These photographs show how individuals and communities interact with religion. They might be understood as ethnographic reportage and comments on the changing manifestations of religion in modern society.

Exhibition images

Works of art

Berenice Abbott (1898–1991), Harlem Street: II, 422-424 Lenox Avenue, Manhattan

James Alinder (born 1941), Christmas at Hinky Dinky, Lincoln, Nebraska

Manuel Alvarez Bravo (1902–2002), Day of All Dead

Manuel Alvarez Bravo (1902–2002), The Visit

Diane Arbus (1923–1971); Neil Selkirk (born 1947), Mr. and Mrs. Santa Claus

Dick Arentz (born 1935), Wells Cathedral, Stairs to Chapter House II

Édouard Boubat (1923–1999), Fête des Morts, Mexico (Day of the Dead, Mexico)

Nicolette Bromberg (born 1950), St. Bartholomew's Church

Geri della Rocca de Candal (born 1942), St. Peter's Square - Rome

Paula Chamlee (born 1944), Creitz Farm, Adrian, Texas

William Christenberry (1936–2016), Church, Sprott, Alabama

Louis De Clercq (1836–1901), Seville, Clocher de la Cathedrale (La Giralda), #7 [Seville, Bell Tower of the Cathedral (La Giralda), #7]

Jack Delano (1914–1997), Sign on highway between Sykesville, Pennsylvania and Punxsutawney, Pennsylvania

Patricia DuBose Duncan (1932–2021), Prairie Wedding

Elliott Erwitt (1928–2023), Confessional, Czestochowa, Poland

Frederick Henry Evans (1853–1943), North Porch, Wells Cathedral

Frederick Henry Evans (1853–1943), York Minster: In Sure and Certain Hope

Walker Evans (1903–1975), Roadside Church in Tennessee

Walker Evans (1903–1975), Negro Church, South Carolina

Lee Friedlander (born 1934), Topless Wedding in Los Angeles; reception followed

Earl Iversen (born 1943), Prophet Royal Robertson's Signs. Baldwin, Louisiana.

Earl Iversen (born 1943), Rudolph Grotto. Rudolph, Wisconsin.

Clarence Kennedy (1892–1972), Hand of the Madonna, Feet of the Child

Noël Marie Paymal Lerebours (1807–1873), Portal de Notre Dame de Reims

Alen MacWeeney (born 1939), The Head of Blessed Oliver Plunkett, Ireland

Gustave Marissiaux (1872–1929), La Chapelle

Wright Morris (1910–1998), Church Near Milford, Nebraska

Patrick A. Nagatani (1945–2017), Miraculous Photo

Rubén Ortiz Torres (born 1964), Apparition in the Hood

Bill Owens (born 1938), untitled (Ronald Reagan on TV)

Marion Palfi (1907–1978), San Miguel, a church near Mexican border, 1967-69, Papago; services at San Miguel

Luis González Palma (born 1957), Corazon I (Winged man with heart) (Heart I)

Gordon Parks (1912–2006), Wedding, France

Paolo Salviati (1818–1894), Chiesa San Marco dalla Locchetta (Church of San Marco from the Locchetta)

Neil Selkirk (born 1947), Reverend Ike

Andres Serrano (born 1950), Madonna and Child II

Ben Shahn (1898–1969), Strawberry Picker's Child

Ben Shahn (1898–1969), Leaving church, Linworth, Ohio

Art Sinsabaugh (1924–1983), Graveyard

Aaron Siskind (1903–1991), Harlem Document 20

Aaron Siskind (1903–1991), Harlem Document 30

W. Eugene Smith (1918–1978), untitled

John Stanton (1799–1888), untitled (Collegiate Church of St Mary, Warwick)

Paul Strand (1890–1976); Richard Benson (born 1943), Fox River, Gaspé

Paul Strand (1890–1976), Cristo with Thorns, Huexotla

Paul Strand (1890–1976), Cristo, Thacochoaya, Oaxaca

George Andrew Tice (1938–2025), Old Amish Men

George Andrew Tice (1938–2025), Christmas Eve

George Andrew Tice (1938–2025), Cain House and Methodist Church

David Wing (born 1947), Near Valentine, Nebraska

Geoffrey L. Winningham (born 1943), The Porter's Tree

Joel Peter Witkin (born 1939), untitled

Marion Post Wolcott (1910–1990), Baptism of members of Primitive Baptist Church in Triplett Creek, Rowan County, near Morehead, Kentucky