News release Public Information Office   SLU 10880   Hammond, LA 70402   phone: 985-549-2341   fax: 985-549-2061 publicinfo@selu.edu     www.selu.edu/news Contact: Christina Chapple Date: 5/28/03   SLU’S SIMS LIBRARY TO HOST DEPRESSION-ERA PHOTOGRAPHY EXHIBIT       HAMMOND -- Southeastern Louisiana University’s Sims Memorial Library will host “The rain are fallin: A Search for the People and Places,” an exhibit of photographs taken in Louisiana during the Great Depression.       The exhibit will be on display June 1-Aug 18. It was curated by Dean Dablow, a photography professor and  director of the School of Art at Louisiana Tech University.       Photographed by the Farm Security Administration in Louisiana from 1935-1943, the 24 photographs were selected by Dablow from the Library of Congress collection of more than 2,000 taken throughout the state.       Dablow said some of the most notable photographers in the history of the medium were involved with the FSA, including Walker Evans, Dorothea Lange, Russell Lee, Carl Mydans, Arthur Rothstein, Ben Shahn, John Vachon, and Marion Post Wolcott. The photographers captured stunning images of the residents of Louisiana as well as interesting places they found in their travels.       “My research into this subject was prompted by my knowledge of these photographs held by the Library of Congress in Washington, D.C. and my profession as a professor of photography at Louisiana Tech,” Dablow said. “Having never seen more than a handful of these photographs published documenting Louisiana,  I wanted to see more. When I was given the privilege of viewing the entirety of the Louisiana collection, I was taken by the honesty and directness of these remarkable photographs. What the FSA photographers captured in these photographs was an extraordinary documentation of our state history and I was moved to give this relatively unknown collection to the citizens of Louisiana through this traveling exhibit.”       Library summer schedule hours are 6-10 p.m., Sunday; 7:30 a.m. to 4:30 p.m., Monday- Wednesday; 7:30 a.m.-4:30 p.m., Thursday-Friday; and 9 a.m.-1 p.m., Saturday.       For additional information, contact Southeastern Visual Arts, 985-549-2193. Return to News Releases