Statement
Inspired
by the 1960s Civil Rights Movement and the deepening interest in America&r
squo\;s multicultural history\, the Center for Documentary Expression and
Art (CDEA)\, an independent\, non-profit organization\, creates\, supports
\, and promotes documentary expression\, documentary art\, and documentary
studies through programs that honor the cultural\, spiritual\, and ethnic
identities of our nation&rsquo\;s diverse population. CDEA also carries o
ut original\, statewide\, K-16 education-outreach activities\, featuring a
rtists/scholars-in-residence who guide K-16 students to explore Utah&rsquo
\;s history\, diversity\, social life\, and environmental/ecological chall
enges through place-based education programs.
Artist's Bio
Matt Herron (1931&ndash\;2020) became a photojournalist in
1962. Based in Mississippi in the early 1960s\, Herron covered the Civil R
ights struggle for Life\, Look\, Time\, and Newsweek magazines and for the
Saturday Evening Post. He also provided photographs and support for the S
tudent Non-Violent Coordinating Committee (SNCC). In 1963\, he founded and
directed the Southern Documentary Project\, a team of five photographers
who attempted to document the process of social change in the South. His r
ecent book\, Mississippi Eyes\, recounts the history and displays photogra
phs from that project.
Herron&rsquo\;s images have appeared in vir tually every major photography magazine in the world and in 1965 he won th e World Press Photo Contest for a photograph of a Mississippi cop beating a five-year-old child. A graduate of Princeton\, Herron&rsquo\;s work is i n the permanent collections of the George Eastman House\, the Schomburg Ce nter for Research in Black Culture\, the High Museum\, and the Smithsonian Institution.
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