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Dave Anderson: Rough Beauty
September 5 - November 1, 2008
Breeze, from Rough Beauty, 2006
Call Dot For Shrimp, from Rough Beauty, 2006
Between 2003 and 2006 Dave Anderson took over 50 trips to Vidor, Texas, and photographed the town and its residents. Known primarily for its long history as a KKK town, Vidor is a small community struggling with issues of extreme poverty and isolation in southeastern Texas. Anderson’s pictures explore a place and its people as they cope with the burden of their past. The place is very reminiscent of the places that opened the eyes of Jack Kerouac and his friends to an America that unfolded in front of them as they drove or hitch hiked back and forth across the country.
In conjunction with the college-wide celebration of Beat culture in Fall 2008 while the original manuscript of Kerouac’s On the Road is on view at the Center for Book and Paper Arts, this exhibition will be accompanied by a selection of works commissioned by the Farm Security Administration (FSA); Dorothea Lange’s photographs taken in the American South during the Great Depression of the 1930s; and images from Robert Frank’s book The Americans.