Our primary collectionss are focused on Photo-Ethnography, or "Cultural Photography", but the catalogue pages for these collections are being reformated. On this page you will find links to essays and exhibits.

Click here to learn more about the concept and purporses
of ethno-photography and cultural photography.


Rodger randle
Documentary Essays

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Photos collected from several countries I have visited serve as a reminder of how much we all have in common with one another, regardless of our outward differences. I may be different in race, age, or background from the people in these portraits, but I see myself reflected in the face of each one.

Te convidamos para conhecer a versão em português
deste ensaio fotográfico: clique aqui.
(Click here for the Portuguese language version.)
This is a brief essay about photography,
told in 44 words and 4 photos.

For a more complete discussion of "cultural photography", click here.
As the Coronavirus 19 epic struck Tulsa, we began a small project to document scenes of our city during the virus. The project evolved several weeks and ended on May 1 following the beginning of Tulsa's reopening. If we are fortunate, things will soon return to normal. The experts, however, warn us that this is far from over ...and therefore we anticipate a "Part 2" to our documentation project for later in the summer or in the fall of 2020, as the pandemic enters a new phase.
CENTER FOR STUDIES IN DEMOCRACY AND CULTURE
EXHIBITS: ONLINE COLLECTIONS
exhibits

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This was a very popular exhibit at the Gallery of the Circle Cinema in Tulsa. The exhibit combines photographs with quotes from some of Prof. Randle's favorite authors. The quotes give meaning to the images, and the images illustrate the messages of the quotes.
The OU-Tulsa Library Invited me to put together a multiscreen electronic exhibit. The result is the collection of images, organized in themes, that are now available online.

The overall title for the exhibit was "One World, One People", and the different photo collections illustrate the universal values shared by people across the globe.

This link will take you to the "People and Faces" page.
This set of photographs from the Library's "One World, One People" exhibit illustrates common things that people around the world have in common.
Although values may be universal, styles of living are not. This set from the library exhibit illustrates examples of different styles of life.
Children are children, wherever you find them. These photos allow you to look into the faces of children from many different countries. The faces of the children are a dramatic reminder of the way that children everywhere share universal qualities.
As an introduction to the exhibit I prepared one slideshow talking about my experience with photography, and I also offer some observations about what I have learned over the years.

OU Center for Studies in Democracy and Culture


Prof. Rodger A. Randle, Director
The University of Oklahoma Tulsa
4502 East 41st Street, Tulsa, Oklahoma 74135
E-mail: randle@ou.edu