Domestic Architecture: BUILDING HOME, BUILDING HOPE

We're looking at photographs ahead of our Photography Exhibit, BUILDING HOME, BUILDING HOPE in collaboration with the Coshocton, Ohio chapter of Habitat for Humanity. We're looking at images that say something about what makes a home. The exhibit opens May 2, 2013 http://www.pomerenearts.org/gatherings/exhibits/were-asking.html
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a living room filled with furniture and a fire place covered in pictures on the wall
Annie Leibovitz
Charleston, East Sussex, UK, was the home and country meeting place for the writers, painters and intellectuals known as the Bloomsbury group. This photograph was taken by photographer Annie Leibovitz as parto of her Pilgrimage series.
an aerial view of a building with lots of people
The Collected Ingredients of a Beijing Life (Published 2009)
Art Review - At MoMA, Song Dong Displays Ingredients of His Mother’s Beijing Home - NYTimes.com
an old fashioned dining room with blue walls
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Moscow. Communal interior designed in the 1930's. The photo was taken in 2007 by Richard Pare with project funding from the Graham Foundation. The light filtering into the warm, dark interior reflects off the small objects of daily life and speaks of the people that called this room home.
an old black and white photo of a fireplace in a living room with many pictures on the wall
Exhibitions & Conferences : The Residency
Beryl White's bedroom at the Residency in Sikkim India, taken by Beryl White between 1901 & 1903–obviously a much grander residency than most of us think of as home. However, the intimacy of the objects and photographs cluttering the mantel and wall speaks of this space being very much home to an English woman living far from home.
two men and a child in a small boat with an old tv on the table
NOVA | World in the Balance | Material World
This image of a Material World, by photojournalist Peter Menzel: images of families in front of their dwellings with all (or nearly all) of their possessions. This is the Wu family in rural Yunnan Province, China. Clicking on the pbs.org link will give you access to additional photographs from Menzel's Material World project.
an old black and white photo of a family in front of their house
The American Dream: A Biography - TIME
This photo of the "family of 4" standing in front of their home on what could be any street in America, illustrates Jon Meachams June 21, 2012 article in Time Magazine, "Keeping the Dream Alive." Ideas of home for us here in America are never far from the ideals of the American Dream.
an old black and white photo of people sleeping in the dirt
FCI
Mother and child in their home after the destruction of its shelter by officials of the Western Cape.
an old bathroom with peeling paint on the walls
melissa vogley woods
The color blue is linked with thoughts and feelings of safety and security. Melissa Vogley Woods' blue image of the chair and lamp carved and painted on this distressed wall hints that this space once was, and could be again, safe and secure–a home.