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By David Lowe, Photography Specialist, The New York Public Library

With the topic of religion magnificently on display in the Library's exhibition Three Faiths: Judaism, Christianity, Islam, the following images, selected from the Library's Photography Collection, take a look at those hard at work in the service of God.

The Photography Collection holds some 500,000 photographs spanning the medium's history and representing all major photographic processes from the daguerreotype to digital images. Currently on view at the Library is Recollection: Thirty Years of Photography at The New York Public Library.


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Keystone View Co. (American, active 1890s-1940s), unidentified lithographic stereoscopic view used for the calibration of a stereo viewer, 20th century. When correctly aligned, a viewer would see "god". NYPL, Wallach Division, Photography Collection.
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By David Lowe, Photography Specialist, The New York Public Library With the topic of religion magnificently on display in the Library's exhibition Three Faiths: Judaism, Christianity, Islam, the foll...
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08:14 PM on 11/14/2010
Did I miss something here? The pictures and the story title are completely disconnected.
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08:53 PM on 11/14/2010
You and me both, the story is totally disconnected.
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06:06 PM on 11/14/2010
Horace really trips my gaydar. Is it just me?
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Libra28
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05:23 PM on 11/14/2010
The word “God†is always and everywhere an interpretation – subjectively meaningful, but not objectively measurable. I suggest that few things cause more problems in the world today than billions of human beings failing to recognize and honor the difference between descriptive and interpretive reality. ~ Michael Dowd
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maymay2
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03:28 PM on 11/14/2010
I live across the street of an ex-elder of the Mormon church. He once decorated his front yard with the Prop H8 signs. Religion and compassion are two separate entity.
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maymay2
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03:33 PM on 11/14/2010
...entities,
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07:02 AM on 11/10/2010
How again are these photos of compassion?
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06:22 PM on 11/12/2010
I find the selection very depressing.
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Religion is a sectually transmitted disease.
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09:58 PM on 11/15/2010
How many show god?
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01:22 AM on 11/10/2010
Be compassionate for the children slaving in other countries to make our junk and don't be a consumer this Christmas.
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06:22 PM on 11/12/2010
What will those slave children eat if they lose their jobs?
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07:54 PM on 11/12/2010
Probably the same few grains of rice they eat now.
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SangZe
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02:23 PM on 11/09/2010
Compassion has nothing to do with religion.
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03:47 PM on 11/09/2010
Agreed. One doesn't have to be religious to be compassionate.
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06:25 PM on 11/12/2010
In fact, the evangelical christian religion has lost all compassion for the poor and downtrodden. But, then, Jesus Christ would not recognize that religion as the one that he founded.
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07:39 PM on 11/09/2010
compassion is based on understanding.

both religion and materialism can hinder that understanding.

beliefs get in the way of compassion.

what must we understand to have compassion for others?

we must be able to see the underlying reality of phenomena which religion and materialism do not teach or address.

materialists are made not born.

and religion does an outstanding job of creating materialists.

one read thru the old testament and unless you have been brainwashed it has the potential to turn the reader into a confirmed materialist.
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10:59 AM on 11/09/2010
most confuse compassion with sympathy and empathy.

compassion is understanding the underlying reality of the phenomena.

sympathy and empathy are about feelings. ie I feel for you and I share your feelings.

compassion is rare very rare contrary to popular teachings.

religion is not about compassion it is about beliefs and faith and converting others to try and overcome their own doubts about their beliefs.

with that said what do these pics have to do with compassion????????

here is the result of a nation that thinks it has compassion in its arrogance and ignorance.

http://pubrecord.org/world/5811/depleted-uranium-babies-afghanistan/

compassion indeed???????????
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07:45 AM on 11/09/2010
Compassion is an intrinsic part of a human being. Irregardless of religion or race compassion awakens within when we see suffering. You don't do compassion in the name of god. When you see a toddler in front of you walking aimlessly towards the middle of the road you act instinctively to pull the child out of danger. In that instanct of action god is at the back of your mind. Thanking god the child is save is an after thought.
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02:29 AM on 11/09/2010
Interesting photos, but I don't see how they illustrate compassion.
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04:23 PM on 11/09/2010
Agreed! They appear to be proselytizing to me!
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12:23 AM on 11/09/2010
Wow, how unexpected to see Francis Schlatter! A fascinating character who was in Denver at the time of the photograph. He was an immigrant from Alsace-Lorraine who wandered the Southwest, known as The Healer, mostly to Hispanics and Native Americans. He didn't do much preaching, never took money, lived very humbly. He died in Mexico.
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