• Home
    • About
    • Contact
    • Executive Director
    • Board of Trustees
    • Teen Art Board
    • Coronavirus
    • Future Home in Downtown Albany >
      • Dance Studio razed at future AMA site
      • Oct 1 2020 Public Meeting
      • Albany Museum of Art Cleanup RFQ
    • Jobs and Internships
    • Appraisal, Conservation & Restoration Contacts
    • AMA Newsroom >
      • 2021 News and News Releases
      • 2020 News and News Releases
      • 2019 News and News Releases
      • 2018 News and News Releases
      • Permanent Collection Returns
      • Hurricane Michael
    • AMArt Magazine
    • AMA Calendar of Events
  • Exhibitions
    • Picture This
    • Globalrama
    • What's SHE Doing?
    • Forsaking All Comfort and Prosperity
    • Escape Plan
    • Upcoming Exhibitions
    • Past Exhibitions >
      • Wayna: Her Dreams of Ethiopia
      • GAGA 29
      • Fighters for Freedom
      • Homecoming
      • The Way of Life: Ray Pierotti >
        • Ray Pierotti Sounded Intervals
      • Ordo naturalis: Eric Mack
      • African Artifacts of Spirituality and Identity
      • Prismatic: Melissa Huang
      • European Splendors
      • Cedric Smith
      • Sanaz Haghani
      • Artist-in-Residence
      • Butch Anthony
      • Paul Kwilecki
      • Educators as Artists 2021
      • Tom Ferguson
      • On the Wall
      • Midlands
      • Georgia Artists Guild of Albany 2020
      • Juan Logan
      • Brian Willmont
      • Viberations of Pasaquan
      • Cut & Paste: Works of Paper
      • Dean Mitchell
      • Yanique Norman >
        • Noon Suite II
      • Origami Variations
      • Smoke Bombs and Border Crossings
      • Georgia Artists Guild of Albany 2019 Show
      • Figure Forward
      • Educators As Artists 2019
      • Fragments of a Violent World
      • Masud Olufani
      • Jose Tongol
      • Jerushia Graham
      • Zipporah Thompson
      • Alex Mixon
      • Mike Landers
      • Benjamin Britton
      • Home Tour
      • Brian Dettmer: Selective Collective Memories
      • Neighborhood for Painters
      • Florence Prisant: A Restrospective
      • Justin Hodges
      • Glenn Dasher
      • Inspired Albany
      • Inspired Georgia
      • From Heart to Hand
      • The Intaglio Figure
      • Norman Rockwell
      • Katie Bacon: Social Graces
      • Abigail Heuss: If Memory Serves
    • Exhibition Proposals
  • Events
    • Art Ball 2023 >
      • Art Ball 2022 Album
    • Laura Cetilia
    • Courageous Conversations
    • Corks and Canvases
    • Book Club
    • Improv Nite
    • Awaken at the AMA
    • Let's Paint Like: Bob Ross
    • AMA ChalkFest >
      • Publix VIP Experience Tickets
      • Tasting Tickets
      • 2021 Sponsors
      • 2021 Sponsorship Opportunities
      • Pro Chalk Artist Apps
      • Community Artists
      • Food Truck Apps
      • Vendor Apps
      • Volunteer
      • ChalkFest Galleries
    • Student Art Studio
    • Birthday Parties
    • Rent our Facility
    • RECENT EVENTS >
      • Family Day
      • Holidays in My PJs
      • William H. Johnson Lecture Series
      • Hometown Black Heroes
      • Freedoms Eve
      • Art of Sound
      • Lift Every Voice
      • Garden Tour
      • Work, Worship and Community: Artists Panel
      • Art Ball 2021 >
        • Art Ball Sponsorships
        • Art Ball 2021 Live Online Auction Site
        • Art Ball 2021 Auction Items
        • Art Ball in a Box
        • Art Ball Private Dinners
      • Color of Justice
      • Supper Series
  • Learn
    • Kids Take the Stage
    • Art Ed Connect
    • Art Club
    • Toddler Takeover
    • Homeschool Day
    • Spring Break Art Camp
    • Winter Holidays Camps
    • Summer Art Camps
    • Art Camp Teachers Information
    • Teachers and Students >
      • Planning Your Visit
      • Things to Know for You Visit
      • Chaperone Guidelines
    • Essay Contest
  • The AMA Online
    • Artful Conversation
    • AMA Art Notes
    • Kids Staying Inspired
    • Art of Selfies Results >
      • Art of Selfies
    • Creative & Courageous
    • Life Imitating Art
    • Art in Residence
  • Members
    • Digital Membership Cards
    • AMA Treasures
    • Member Events
  • Support
    • Year End Giving
    • Donate
    • Join
    • Volunteer
Albany Museum of Art
Picture
Paul Kwilecki, "Flint River Boat Basin," 1979, gelatin silver print, © The Paul Kwilecki Family. Image courtesy of The Do Good Fund, Inc., 2015-60. This image may not be copied, reproduced or used without written permission of the Paul Kwilecki Family.

WORK, WORSHIP & COMMUNITY
Photography by Paul Kwilecki

East Gallery | March 4 - June 26, 2021

PicturePaul Kwilecki, "Loggers in the woods, near Attapulgus," 1978, gelatin silver print, © The Paul Kwilecki Family. Image courtesy of The Do Good Fund, Inc., 2017-38. This image may not be copied, reproduced or used without written permission of the Paul Kwilecki Family.
​Nothing speaks to life in the Deep South like the institutions work, worship and community. And few have captured images of those aspects of life with the clarity of Bainbridge photographer Paul Kwilecki.

An exhibition of photography by Kwilecki (1928-2009) is in the East Galley of the Albany Museum of Art from March 4-June 26, 2021.

“Work, Worship and Community: Paul Kwilecki, represents a selection of documentary photographs taken throughout a lifetime in South Georgia,” AMA Guest Curator Didi Dunpohy said. “Looking for the core of what it is to be human, through love, toil, hope and despair, cruel poverty to an overpowering vitality, Kwilecki captures the essential nature of ourselves and place. Images of laborers, churchgoers, some enjoying leisure and neighbors, Kwilecki shows us a grave reminder of the socio-political gap in rural and small-town Georgia and those who live and work in the region.”

The exhibition was made possible by The Do Good Fund, a Columbus, Ga.-based public charity with a photography collection that represents “a visual narrative of the ever-changing South,” Dunphy said.

PicturePaul Kwilecki, "Sunday school class, Mt. Zion A.M.E. Church," 1981, gelatin silver print, © The Paul Kwilecki Family. Image courtesy of The Do Good Fund, Inc., 2017-59. This image may not be copied, reproduced or used without written permission of the Paul Kwilecki Family.
Get info and register to attend the April 22 artists' panel discussion Work, Worship & Community: A Discussion on Race and Community HERE.

Kwilecki was dedicated to photographing his hometown and surrounding Decatur County. Shooting 35mm film, he captured small-town life with images of Black agricultural workers, working-class individuals, cafés, courthouses, grocery stores, cemeteries and churches. His first book, 
Understandings: Photographs of Decatur County, Georgia, was published in 1981, followed by Lowly Wise, Book One: Scenes of Religion in and Around Decatur County, Georgia in 1992. One Place: Paul Kwilecki and Four Decades of Photographs from Decatur County, Georgia, edited by Tom Rankin and Iris Tillman Hill, was published posthumously in 2013. His work has been exhibited nationally, and a large archive of his photos and writings are held in the David M. Rubenstein Rare Book and Manuscript Library at Duke University, according to The Do Good Fund.

The Do Good Fund, founded in 2012, has built a museum-quality collection of photographs taken since World War II in the South. Included in the collection of more than 600 photographs are works by more than 20 Guggenheim Fellows, as well as lesser known and emerging photographers. The organization’s mission is to make its collection broadly accessible through regional museums, nonprofit galleries and nontraditional venues, and to encourage complementary, community-based programming to accompany each exhibition.

“Thank you to The Do Good Fund for this opportunity to share Paul Kwilecki's work with the Albany community,” Dunphy said.

Powered by Create your own unique website with customizable templates.