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Many Voices: Documentary Photography

by Virginia Allyn

186 pages; quality trade paperback (softcover); illustrated; catalogue #05-0653; ISBN 1-4120-5754-x; US$56.50, C$56.50, EUR38.60, £29.17

From the corners to the churches, from Sunday morning to Saturday night, from the cities to the smallest towns there are stories to be told, Many Voices to be heard.

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About the Book

Many Voices is a collection of photo essays giving voice to those communities so often and so undeniably passed by. Through the eye of the camera many may see. From the corners to the churches, from Sunday morning 'til Saturday night, from the streets of Harlem and San Francisco to the small towns of Alabama there are stories to be told, many voices to be heard. With exposure these many voices become louder.

The voices in these works are the subjects' own - people telling their stories of history and hope, of what they've witnessed, of the mighty long way they've come and the mighty long way we still must travel. It is their first hand experience and wisdom we have the privilege of sharing. They have raised their voices with great dignity. They have been waiting for their voices to be heard.

Photographers are story tellers. There are the stories that must be told in pictures. There are the stories that must live on like oral histories.

Documentary photography informs, inspires and compels change. It allows us to participate. Only light can drive out darkness. These subjects' words offer the hues of light.

The essays that comprise this work may be considered in the spirit of T.S. Eliot's words: "There are some things...before which we dare not keep silent."

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About the Author

Virginia Allyn was born in Chicago and currently resides in San Francisco. She has been a documentary photographer for many years. Like butterflies with exquisite color man journeys through his lifetime along many rivers. The camera captures what we witness in our lifetime, it is vision, and it allows vision. What is captured in time and of the times with heart and soul and grace through the eye of the camera is a legacy. One voice among many voices. Photography has allowed me to be more than I ever imagined. From joy comes strength.

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"Virginia Allyn's photographic perspective fulfills a need for this kind of stark yet heartfelt look at the world." Kim Bach, Office of Exhibitions and Programming, San Francisco Public Library

"...Text and image belie the power of these eloquent and visually stunning portraits of historically marginalized communities alive with spirit. This is art that compels social change." Jim Mitulski, James C. Hormel Center, Friends & Foundation of the San Francisco Public Library

"Some stories cannot be told by words. Virginia Allyn does with her camera what I try to do with my pen." Earl McCann, Author

"Virginia Allyn has the sensitivity to see and the sensitivity to hear." Joan Louise Brookbank, U.S. Director, Merrell Publishers

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