The Ruth Chandler Williamson Gallery at Scripps College will exhibit 75 images from some of the most prominent and insightful photographers of our time, as well as those of decades past, representing the theme of hope, from August 28 through October 17, 1999. An opening reception will be held on September 9, from 6-8 p.m., in the courtyard adjacent to the Gallery at 11th Street and Columbia Avenue.
Called the "Hope Photographs," the compelling, luminous images show the theme of hope from a wide array of unconventional perspectives and touch on all areas of the human experience, including birth, childhood, romance, religion, sociopolitical struggle, the arts, science, sports, and even death. "We started with the belief that an act of creation—photography, in this case—is an act of hope," say curators Alice Rose George and Lee Marks. "Hope is a future-oriented desire," according to George and Marks," and photography and hope share common physical and metaphorical quality—light."
Presented by Camera Works, Inc., and circulated by Curatorial Assistance, Inc., of Los Angeles, the photographs were originally collected by the curators for noted psychiatrist and Pulitzer Prize-winning author Robert Coles. "Hope Photographs" features the work of some of the most prominent and insightful photographers of our time, as well as those of decades past: Harry Callahan, William Eggleston, Lee Friedlander, Nan Goldin, Max Kozloff, Mary Ellen Mark, Duane Michaels, Robert Misrach, Patrick Nagatani, NASA, Nicholas Nixon, Cindy Sherman, Rosalind Solomon, Gary Winograd, and others. An illustrated catalogue, with essays by Robert Coles, Reynolds Price, and Lionel Tiger, accompanies the exhibition.