Photographs find profound in ordinary people

An exhibit of photographs from the 1930s and 1940s and the work of a contemporary artist and filmmaker both show the profound in the everyday lives of ordinary people.

The Danish documentary photographer, contributed to U.S. government photographic projects during the Great Depression after immigrating to the United States and studying photography with Berenice Abbott.
Working with American photographer Walker Evans in the South under the auspices of the USFarm Security Administration; A machine factory in Savannah, Georgia, Salvation Army Musicians in Cleveland, Ohio, a prison chain gang in Georgia.
His photographs documenting government-sponsored relief efforts, and the conditions that required them, make his work particularly timely;The U.S. Census Bureau's latest annual snapshot of living standards shows 22 percent of children live below the poverty line, the largest percentage in nearly two decades.
Aside from the content, the formal qualities of the photographs reflect a kind of modernism: straightforward, and sometimes austere. And their impact was lasting.
Working people and attention to the ordinary are also hallmarks of the work of Kevin Jerome Everson whose films Quality Contro and The Prichard will be shown at the New York Film Festival's Views from the Avant-Garde series on October