Covenant
Scenes from an African American Church
By Tyagan Miller (Photographer); Yusef Komunyakaa (Essay by)
(Indiana University Press, Hardcover, 9780253348357, 176pp.)
Publication Date: April 2007
Categories: Collections, Catalogs, Exhibitions, Photoessays & Documentaries, Subjects & Themes - Portraits
 |     |
With an introductory essay by Pulitzer Prize--winning poet YusefKomunyakaa, Covenant is, in the words of photographer Tyagan Miller, "a recordof things seen and heard in uncommon circumstances, the view of life that underliesit, reflect ing] the mutual aspiration of human beingseverywhere."
Culled from more than 4,000 images taken byMiller over a four-year period, the 93 photographs record the salient aspects of thelife of Friendship Missionary Baptist Church on Indianapolis's near west side --services, baptisms, weddings, funerals, social events, and portraits of thecongregants. In accompanying interviews, congregants share their stories ofmiracles, seeing angels, losing a child, racism and brotherly love, and being young, black, and poor.
 |
1Q84 Haruki Murakami Knopf |
 |
The Marriage Plot Jeffrey Eugenides Farrar, Straus, and Giroux |
 |
The Sense of an Ending Julian Barnes Knopf |
 |
Death Comes to Pemberley PD James Knopf |
