Category: Religion, United States, California
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- Berndt Collection Collection Description Jerry Berndt Collection is a collection of 774 photographs shot by Jerry Berndt. These photographs were created under the auspices of Center of Religion and Civic Center(CRCC), USC. Jerry Berndt is an American photojournalist based in Paris. His photographs are included in the permanent collection of the Museum of Modern Art (New York), the Museum of Fine Arts (Boston), the International Center of Photography(New York York), and the Bibliotheque National (Paris). This collection consists of two subcollections: Gateway Cities Photography Project and Soul of Los Angeles Collection. . The Gateways Cities Photography Project.
Chinese Paper Gods Collection Essays The images in this collection were assembled by Anne S. Goodrich (1895–2005) in 1931, when as a Christian missionary in Peking she became interested in local folk religious practices. She studied the paper gods in this collection for much of her life. After publishing her research conclusions in 1991, she donated these prints to the C. V. Starr East Asian Library, Columbia University. The images are divided initially by usage: Those which were purchased to be burned immediately and serve as emissaries to heaven; and those which were purchased to be displayed for a year while offering protection to the family in a variety of ways, before being burned. The images are further divided by display locations and by the deities they represent.
