The Cadence of the music is beautiful as are the prayers and the songs of the people. I am taken by the expressions of sadness and hope and by their unflinching devotion. The little church's windows were steaming each night when I left. (Stanley Lanzano, 1998)

Pastor Vandershost testifying. Andrews, SC 1996. Photo by Stanley Lanzano

McKissick's visitors can easily imagine hearing gospel music and calls of "Amen," when they view Stanley Lanzano's eloquent and powerful photographs of revival meetings at small, African-American churches in the Carolina low country. Lanzano, whose first career was in real estate, in 1993 vacationed at a Pawley's Island resort. While at Pawley's Island, Lanzano visited a small low country African American congregation. He soon heard Georgetown's Reverend Floyd Knowlin, who travels to churches in the area, deliver his gospel message.

"This is historic preservation, because this has to go away," Lanzano told a Denver Post reporter in 1993.   In a gallery guide that accompanied an earlier Lanzano exhibition, the photographer wrote, "I'm interested in their families and their homes, their health, their educations, their politics, their prejudices, their gardens and their cars."

Christmas Revival. Lake City, SC 1995. Photo by Stanley Lanzano

Evangelist McKnight. Andrews, SC 1996. Photo by Stanley Lanzano	Pastor Sharon Epps and Josie Epps. Cades, SC 1994. Photo by Stanley Lanzano
Josie Epps. Cades, SC 1994. Photo by Stanley Lanzano

John A. Lomax's 1939 Recording Expedition to South Carolina (Library of Congress)
Gullah - An African Tree Grown in America
Gullah Connections
The Hallelujah Singers
The African-American Mosaic: A Library of Congress Resource Guide for the Study of Black History and Culture
Academic Info: African American History