Traveling exhibition

15.2.2018

The traveling exhibition of photographic posters “The Public Library. A Photographic Essay” by Robert Dawson came to LTSNU.

This happened with the support of the US Embassy in Ukraine, the cultural center “American House” and the information and resource center “Window on America”. They offer to get acquainted with the work of the American photographer Robert Dawson, who has visited and photographed libraries of America and the world for many years.

There are about 17,000 public libraries in the United States of America. All of them are different, each has its own flavor. Communities of large cities built and maintained modern, computerized libraries, with theatrical halls and creative workshops. Small towns and villages have small, but cozy and well-filled libraries. Every American citizen can visit the library closest to his home, where he finds the necessary information, meets with writers, attends concerts, works on the Internet, looks for work online, has a rest in good interiors, or even can hold a wedding. Therefore, at the time of digital technologies the library reinvents itself. It requires more and more to go beyond the exchange of books and become a social center.

The photographs presented at the exhibition were awarded with the Guggenheim scholarship, a grant from the Creative Work Foundation, a grant from the Graham Foundation, a scholarship of the National Art Endowment, Dorothea Lang-Paul Taylor for documentary. Photos of the author are in the collection of the Museum of Modern Art in New York, the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, as well as the National Museum of American Art (Smithsonian Institution).

The public libraries in America are an opportunity to receive information, information is freedom, freedom is what every person needs for internal development and growth. The placement of the exhibition at the University, which is the center of culture, creative and intellectual growth of the community, is natural. We invite all not indifferent to the acquaintance.

The exhibition is in the library of Luhansk Taras Shevchenko National University. You can view it for free during the working hours of the library.

According to information
of the International Relations Department