“The Grandeur of God”
Don Doll, S.J., August 8, 1805 - Beaver Head Rock, Montana, panorama color photograph, collection of the artist. Doll retraced the Lewis and Clark Trail from St. Louis to the Pacific Ocean in the summer of 2003. |
Don Doll, S.J. was the Marquette University Wade Scholar Lecturer for the spring 2008 semester. In conjunction with Doll’s stay at Marquette, the Haggerty Museum presented “The Grandeur of God”: Photographs by Don Doll, S.J. The title of the exhibition is inspired by the Gerard Manley Hopkins poem God’s Grandeur, written in 1877. The exhibition included a selection of Doll’s Native American images, panoramas along the Lewis and Clark Trail, Jesuits assisting refugees in Uganda, Sudan, and Eastern Europe, landmine victims in Angola, and Tsunami survivors in India and Sri Lanka. Don Doll, S.J. is a Jesuit priest and award-winning photographer whose work has been featured in National Geographic and a number of the Day in the Life of... books. Doll was introduced to photography and the Lakota people when he was assigned to the Rosebud Reservation in South Dakota as a young Jesuit. Doll has photographed two books on Native Americans, Crying for a Vision and Vision Quest: Men, Women and Sacred Sites of the Sioux Nation. In May of 1997, Fr. Doll was awarded the prestigious Kodak Crystal Eagle Award for Impact in Photojournalism at the National Press Club in Washington, DC, for his many years of work with Native Americans. Since 1969, Doll has lived and worked at Creighton University in Omaha, Nebraska, where he is a professor of Journalism, and holds the Heider Endowed Jesuit Chair. This exhibition is sponsored in part by the John P. Raynor, S.J. Endowment Fund. |
