Sheila Pree Bright (born, 1967). "#SayHerName (Young Man Crying)" from "#1960Now" series, 2016. Archival pigment print, 30 x 30 inches. The Do Good Fund, Inc., 2019-25.
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Reckonings and Reconstructions: Southern Photography from The Do Good Fund

June 15, 2024 - September 8, 2024
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Reckonings and Reconstructions: Southern Photography from The Do Good Fund represents a survey of the art and artists within the Do Good Fund's collection. Providing a scholarly investigation of southern photography since World War II, the collection highlights a wide-ranging group of photographers - diverse in gender, race, ethnicity, and region - in over one hundred and twenty-photographs by over seventy artists. Over the past decade the Do Good Fund has build a museum-quality collection of photography to document and celebrate the ever-changing American South. The exhibition includes works by such renowned photographers as: Debbie Fleming, Caffery, Rosalind Fox Solomon, Shelby Lee Adams, Sheila Pree Bright, William Christenberry, Chandra McCormick, and Gordon Parks. 

Organized by the Georgia Museum of Art, University of Georgia. The exhibition program is supported in part by the Wyeth Foundation for American Art, the W. Newton Morris Charitable Foundation, and the Friends of the Georgia Museum of Art. 

Supporting Sponsor: The Brian Pasierb Family Foundation

Contributing Sponsor: Carolyn Levine & Leonard Kallio Trust

Media Sponsor: KLJB FOX 18



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