Photography Exhibit and Talk: "Indiana in Afghanistan; Afghanistan in Indiana"

“Indiana in Afghanistan; Afghanistan in Indiana” exhibit will be featured within Indiana University Wells Library lobby, August 23-31, 2010.

Photographs by Douglas Wissing; curated by Jim Canary.

The exhibit merges journalist Douglas Wissing’s contemporary photographs of Afghanistan with Indiana University’s Afghanistan-related archival material, which was curated by Lilly Library conservator Jim Canary. Illustrating Indiana’s long and on-going relationship with this complex central- Asian nation through photographs of Hoosiers in Afghanistan, from Chancellor Herman Wells’s 1966 Kabul trip to the Indiana National Guard Agribusiness Development Team’s 2009 deployment to war-torn Khost Province, the exhibit documents Indiana University's long Afghanistan relationship through Afghan objects, manuscripts, books, audio and ephemera from I.U’s Lilly Library, Mathers Museum, University Archives and Archives of Traditional Music.

An Exhibit Talk with Douglas Wissing and Jim Canary, Indiana University Wells Library lobby, will be given Friday August 27, 2010, 5:30 pm.