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In 1990, Thomas Roma began photographing the exterior of houses of worship in his native Brooklyn, which features more churches per square mile than any other place in the United States. One morning, the pastor of an African-American Christian church housed in a former Jewish temple invited Roma to join the congregation with his camera, explaining that God's work was not in the buildings, but in what went on inside. Roma eventually photographed more than 150 services in 52 African-American churches, richly fulfilling his desire "to make religious pictures for modern times." Only 100 copies of Come Sunday remain available, and each of these has been signed by the photographer himself.
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Come Sunday Photographs by Thomas Roma
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The Museum of Modern Art (MoMA), New York, 1996
ISBN 10: 0870701231
ISBN 13: 9780870701238
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Softcover
Seller: Mullen Books, ABAA, Marietta, PA, U.S.A.
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Softcover. Condition: VG+. Softcover with BW printed photograph on front. 112 pp. with 87 bw photographs. In 1990 Thomas Roma began a series of photographs of houses of worship in Brooklyn, once called the "City of Churches." The project was decisively changed when the pastor of a black Christian congregation invited Roma instead to photograph the Sunday service itself. Over the next three years Roma made pictures of more than one hundred and fifty services in fifty-two black Christian churches in Brooklyn - a year of Sundays. Come Sunday presents a generous selection of those pictures. An essay by Henry Louis Gates, Jr., introduces the photographs by exploring the many dimensions of "The Church" in African American life, history, and culture. Signed copy. Seller Inventory # 201417
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Come on Sunday. Photographs by Thomas Roma Thomas Roma; Henry Louis Gates
Published by
The Museum of Modern Art, 1996
ISBN 10: 0870701231
ISBN 13: 9780870701238
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Softcover
Seller: BUCHSERVICE / ANTIQUARIAT Lars Lutzer, Wahlstedt, Germany
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Softcover. Condition: gut. 1996. Come on Sunday. Photographs by Thomas Roma In deutscher Sprache. pages. Seller Inventory # BN153687
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Come Sunday
Seller: mountain, GEORGETOWN, CO, U.S.A.
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paperback. Condition: Good. softcover book light wear to cover and book edges, has some light reader wear. Seller Inventory # mon0000007622
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Come Sunday: Photographs by Thomas Roma
Seller: BWS BKS, Ferndale, NY, U.S.A.
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Paperback. Condition: New. Seller Inventory # 83325