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Photo, Print, Drawing What we carried, fragments from the cradle of civilization

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Title

  • What we carried, fragments from the cradle of civilization

Names

  • Lommasson, Jim, photographer

Created / Published

  • Jim Lommasson, 2003-2017.

Headings

  • -  Refugees--Iraqi--United States--2000-2020
  • -  Refugees--Syrian--United States--2000-2020

Headings

  • Inkjet prints--2000-2020.
  • Photograph albums--2010-2020.

Genre

  • Inkjet prints--2000-2020
  • Photograph albums--2010-2020

Notes

  • -  Caption label from exhibit "Collecting Memories": Reminders of home. Susan Barwary, a refugee of the Iraq War, brought her family's treasured coffee cups to the U.S., where she ultimately settled in Chicago. Her father purchased the cups originally a set of twelve in 1945. He was envisioning a large family, Barwary explains. Only five cups have survived. Barwary presented the five survivors to photographer Jim Lommasson. Between 2003 and 2014, Lommasson interviewed Iraq War refugees like Barwary and photographed the few possessions they were able to take with them. He compiled the photographs with handwritten testimony by the refugees into an album titled, What We Carried. "The participants' additions give voice to the universal plight of refugees throughout time," says Lommasson. "I hope viewers will imagine themselves making decisions about what they would gather before leaving their homes forever."
  • -  Title from album.
  • -  What We Carried is a photo album about Iraq War refugees, including family photographs and images of what refugee families brought with them when they moved to the United States. Photographs were taken between 2003-2014, the album was designed in 2014 and made for the Library in 2017.
  • -  Photographs are ink jet color, some printed directly on the pages which also include text. Others are presented in clear plastic sheets. The album also has a metal binder clip that holds a copy of a passport and Iraqi banknote and a loose photograph.
  • -  Purchase; 23 Sandy Gallery; 2017; (DLC/PP-2017:133).
  • -  Exhibited: "Collecting Memories: Treasures from the Library of Congress" at the Library of Congress, Thomas Jefferson Building, NW Curtain, Treasure Gallery, Washington, D.C., June 2024 - December 2025.
  • -  Exhibited: "Collecting Memories: Treasures from the Library of Congress" at the Library of Congress, Thomas Jefferson Building, NW Curtain, Treasure Gallery, Washington, D.C., June 2025 - January 2026.
  • -  Vendor : 23 Sandy Gallery.

Medium

  • 1 album : with 40 inkjet photographs ; sheets 36 x 26 cm.

Call Number/Physical Location

  • Unprocessed in PR 13 CN 2017:133 (AA size) [P&P]

Repository

Digital Id

Library of Congress Control Number

  • 2017656483

Reproduction Number

  • LC-DIG-ppmsca-74592 (digital file from original)

Rights Advisory

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Online Format

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  • Reproduction Number: LC-DIG-ppmsca-74592 (digital file from original)
  • Call Number: Unprocessed in PR 13 CN 2017:133 (AA size) [P&P]
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Lommasson, Jim, photographer. What We Carried, Fragments from the Cradle of Civilization. United States, 2003. Jim Lommasson, to 2017. Photograph. https://www.loc.gov/item/2017656483/.

APA citation style:

Lommasson, J., photographer. (2003) What We Carried, Fragments from the Cradle of Civilization. United States, 2003. Jim Lommasson, to 2017. [Photograph] Retrieved from the Library of Congress, https://www.loc.gov/item/2017656483/.

MLA citation style:

Lommasson, Jim, photographer. What We Carried, Fragments from the Cradle of Civilization. Jim Lommasson, to 2017. Photograph. Retrieved from the Library of Congress, <www.loc.gov/item/2017656483/>.