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Bishop Don Johnson; pioneering womanlike photographer Nadia Price Bates Strid as well as Presiding Bishop Katharine Jefferts Schori
Image by St. Mary’s Episcopal Cathedral – Memphis
Nadia has been photographing bishops during St. Mary’s for about 60 years.
Strid was the initial veteran womanlike photographer in Memphis, Tenn. An neophyte to Memphis photographer Avery N. Stratton in 1939, she non-stop her own studio, "Photographs by Nadia," in 1945 with Caroline Jenkins. Her exhibitios during Arkansas State University as well as Rhodes College (Memphis), A Delta Era Gone By, featured her mid-20th century documentary work. Strid's lens prisoner the Delta's African Americans during work, during school, during play, as well as during church in Arkansas, Tennessee, Mississippi, as well as Alabama.
St. Mary’s Episcopal Cathedral, Memphis
Photo by Gary Bridgman
b>Nadia Strid, in her own words
"It was substantially late in 1939 when you proposed as an neophyte with Avery N. Stratton, an glorious photographer in Memphis, guidance retouching as well as dim room work. A year later, he paid me .00 the week for 6-8hr. days. It was scarcely the year after that when he changed to the latest place where he had built the college of music to his specifications. A poetic place upon newly lengthened Union Ave. (it is right away the Junior League House). It was early Dec when you changed his mid-town college of music as well as had an opening accepting upon Sunday Dec 7, 1941. Then about 4 P. M. someone told us of conference upon the air wave (before television} about the bombing of Pearle Harbor! you longed for to do what you could. So you left Avery Stratton’s Studio to go to drafting propagandize as well as after worked for U.S. Engineers. At that time, they were you do fight work. you stayed with them for thirteen months. After fight work had played out, you went to work for Fisher Air Craft who was creation tools for the B25s. you was the plant photographer, that not usually included in the mailing photographs in the plant though IDs as well as finger printing.
Things were negligence down as well as you motionless to take the summer stay job. you practical to the single of the tip summer girl’s camps in Wisconsin. The executive had usually mislaid her diving physical education physical education instructor as well as longed for to know if you could learn diving. you had worked upon the one-meter house though not the 3-meter. Thought you would try. you did not know you was following the Olympic diving champion, Janie Faunce Manskie. Needless to say, her students were improved than you was, though not aged sufficient to teach. A formidable year, though you did go during the back of the subsequent year as the photographer. That summer the fight ended. Everyone was rationed upon movie as well as paper (plus many alternative things). you was to put out the catalogue with usually 2 boxes of24 sheets any of 4/5 movie as well as the single box of 100 sheets of 8/1 0 paper. The catalogue did have 46 conflicting latest photographs. Probably the many formidable choice you had in all my veteran years.
I do recollect an additional formidable choice when Newburger Cotton Co. called as well as longed for photographs of their room in movement for their prospectus. It was after the deteriorate as well as the room was empty! There was the single scoop of cotton. you kept putting it in the forehead as well as sharpened around it. Some how it worked as well as they were pleased.
I once had to do the same thing with people in the church. No the single was there solely my partner as well as the priest. you shot his during the back of during the communion rail to get the great tabernacle perspective of the priest-giving communion.
The tumble after my initial year during Camp Nagawicka in Wisconsin, you visited my sister as well as her father who was stationed in Louisiana. He was to be sent abroad as well as pronounced he was starting over to dump the final bomb. He could have, you still do not know. However, in the meant time, Billy as well as you were pushing their installed red conversable during the back of to Memphis as well as approached the outrageous clouded cover of fume blazing leaves late in the afternoon upon the pleasing Oct day. The automobile was so complicated that it hold it’s upon all sides in the road, though unexpected you knew we’d been hit. When you saw the griddle of the lorry confronting us. ‘Billy this is it!’ you didn’t know how we’d come out of that alive. The male who strike us was flitting the truckload of string pickers as well as being though eyes by fume took the left light, that after identified him. Billy as well as you both went by the windshields (they were widely separated during that day as well as time as well as not break proof). There was usually 4" in in in between my chair as well as the wheel.
I had been the advisor for Camp Woodhaven during Montgomery Bell State Park NW Tennessee the summer before. In 1946, the National Girl Scouts were starting the latest module operative with seniors as Program Aids, as partner counselors. They indispensable the advisor for the group. you did not consider you competent though they longed for to try it, as you desired operative with girls that age. Caroline as well as you had already proposed the Business as well as were constrictive summer camps for business, that in all meant the week during the time. We had assimilated the American Camping Association, that is where you finished the contacts. you would need to be in Hardy, Arkansas for dual or 3 days whilst you was ostensible to be upon the pursuit for Woodhaven. you did take photographs for the Girl Scouts as well as YWCA in Hardy as well as Woodhaven as well as attempted to be the advisor during the same time. The photographs were great though you do not know how great the advisor you was. They were still regulating the module the final you heard.
The alloy called as well as flagged the sight to get us to Memphis. When you boarded the swarming train, you recollect overhanging from chair to chair as well as someone remarked, ‘Oh, my painful back’ as well as you replied ‘and it’s unequivocally aching’.
With the scarred face, you knew anticipating the pursuit would not be easy. you asked Mr. Stratton if he still indispensable someone in the darkroom. He gave me the great raise. The following summer was the year you was the photographer for Camp Nagawicka. That tumble Caroline Jenkins, the classmate of my sister’s, additionally my physical education physical education instructor in Lifesaving as well as you motionless to mix equipment, her movie lights, as well as my graduation present, the 21/4×31/4 Anniversary Speed Graphic as well as take children’s photographs. With out the studio, you would go in to the homes.
When Caroline as well as you were formulation the business, Helen Geohegan was there though not meddlesome as she was operative for the wardrobe store, though did give us her support. It was Halloween night as well as you had usually taken the sketch of the costumed area children. All the relatives longed for the copy. Caroline was great with children. In fact, she could have any the single laugh. We sat up ’til 4AM creation the plans. We declared the commercial operation ‘Photography by NADIA’ as well as set up the dim room in the groundwork of my folk's unit upon Union Ave. in Memphis. We proposed by receiving babies in the homes, that the mothers loved. Our sign was ‘Let Us Come To You’.
Caroline was operative for the internal Girl Scouts as well as had talked me in to being the personality for the Mariner Troop. Our couple trafficked as well as did some-more endless camping than any alternative couple in the country. At the single point, you had thirteen true camping weekends as well as you shortly burnt out. Most of the girls finished their income by baby-sitting.
I had been the advisor for Camp Woodhaven during Montgomery Bell State Park NW Tennessee the summer before. In 1946, the National Girl Scouts were starting the latest module operative with seniors as Program Aids, as partner counselors. They indispensable the advisor for the group. you did not consider you competent though they longed for to try it, as you desired operative with girls that age. Caroline as well as you had already proposed the Business as well as were constrictive summer camps for business, that in all meant the week during the time. We had assimilated the American Camping Association, that is where you finished the contacts. you would need to be in Hardy, Arkansas for dual or 3 days whilst you was ostensible to be upon the pursuit for Woodhaven. you did take photographs for the Girl Scouts as well as YWCA in Hardy as well as Woodhaven as well as attempted to be the advisor during the same time. The photographs were great though you do not know how great the advisor you was. They were still regulating the module the final you heard.
To get proposed in business, you indispensable money. As it was nearby Christmas, the male told me about Department Stores wanting something conflicting as well as tasteful to sell for gifts. She had been offered palm embellished scarves as well as ties, though was removing tied together as well as would not be you do it any more, would you similar to to continue? It was the answer to the prayer. We finished 0.00 sufficient to get us proposed with dim room reserve as well as film. We indispensable the incomparable darkroom enlarger than the the single you had. It was not easy borrowing from the bank though credit, though someway you managed. After you paid it off, you kept borrowing, put the income aside, paid the interest, as well as progressively borrowed some-more until you built up the satisfactory credit.
It was the single 5th of Jul 1959 when you returned home as well as Billy, my sister, asked me what happened to me upon the 4th during 6:00AM? you quick replied that you was in bed during that hour, as well as afterwards you remembered that the couple of of the counselors during Camp Monterey where you was receiving photographs, were starting equine during the back of roving early as well as did you wish to stick upon them? We went to an open margin as well as usually let the horses run. There was the vast branch in the approach of my mount, that you both saw during the same time. He went the single approach as well as you the alternative as well as off! Holding onto his reins, you saw the vast leg entrance down usually in time to turn. His leg held my hair. you nervously remounted as well as assimilated the group. you ask Billy because she asked. She pronounced my roving design that Mother had embellished with the red roving habit, had depressed off the wall It was the great portrait, though regularly broke me as usually the track master wears the red. The time of the descending was the same time you had fallen, as East Tennessee was upon illumination assets time. Twenty years later, that same mural fell off the wall upon Jul 4th! My initial husband, Bill Bates, as well as you were vital north of Quitman during the time.
It contingency have been May of 1959 when Les Passes Hospital was to be dedicated. you had taken photographs of all the vital as well as copies of the past defunct presidents to be hung in the single of the corridors. When you knew they were to be hung upon the petrify retard wall, you had called the archbishop to find out what distance nails were needed. you was rebuilt though the small late as the janitor was withdrawal as well as gave me af1imsy produce to use. Not my job, though if they were to be hung, you theory it was up to me. The dual women from Les Passé didn't know anything about the hammer. The initial spike you attempted to produce in in in in between the petrify blocks bounced off the conflicting wall. The nails kept tortuous as well as bouncing. you told the women to mount during the back of prior to someone got hit. The executive had not respected the architect's wishes. It was the formidable job. About the third design you were hanging, the spike bounced in to my left EYE. "As low as it could go with out starting through" to allude to the alloy later. As there was no pain, you told the women what you suspicion had happened, the single laughed as well as the alternative scarcely fainted. you motionless not to discuss it any the single else. We did finish the job. you gathering during the back of to the studio, still wondering. The subsequent day was Sunday. As you sang in the choir, you sealed my right eye to see if the left was OK. That afternoon was the sanatorium loyalty you As you stood in the sun, my eye began to throb. Maybe you had the bit of the headache, you do not remember, though when you met my mend, Alice Crocket to go to an afternoon low-pitched she ask me what you had finished to my eye, as well as you ask because she asked? She pronounced my eye was all red red blood shot. you put upon dim eyeglasses as well as when you reached the home of the mend whose celebration you were starting to, she finished me call my ophthalmologist. The same the single that had stitched up the same eye fourteen years before. He told me to come in initial thing in the morning. you did not discuss it Mother or my sister, as they were Christian Scientists. Papa gathering me to the doctor. It was about 11:00 AM prior to he could see me. About 4 doctors as well as attendants were station over me blazing out infection. you was ostensible to demeanour during the single mark upon the wall with doctors relocating during the back of as well as onward in in in between the mark as well as me. God helped me as well as they did the glorious job. Two some-more hours as well as the word would not have lonesome it. That was my widespread eye as well as they burnt out all the infection. you after schooled that my contingency were about the million to the single of saying again! Several months after you met the meant as well as ask him if he disposed if you asked what happened to him given he was wearing the potion eye. He replied that he struck the spike in his eye. The crow bumps ran up as well as down my spine!
One month as well as the day after thrombosis appeared! A red red blood clot during the back of the retina. It was dissolved as well as in due time disappeared. God has been great to this kid of his. He is creation me comprehend that the biggest prophesy is bargain as well as love. The adore of the neighbors.
Another choice you remember, where Caroline as well as you were covering the wedding. in Hernando, Mississippi (I believe). The home was an aged the single remodeled. The dogtrot had been enclosed. The father was using late as he was drifting in from New York as well as his craft was late. Folks seemed the small tense. you was receiving the organisation shot, when you climbed upon an very aged chair, after receiving my boots off when you listened the howling crack. you disappeared. you usually knew you had busted that aged chair! With the weight of so many folks, the building caved in. They eventually found me as well as the uncover went on. They all had the great giggle about me.
Driving home upon the 5th of Jul from Camp Monterey after the week of receiving photographs of all the stay activities, you came over the mountain in center Tennessee, as well as confident the automobile in front of me was stopped or slowed down. you saw the wake line entrance in the conflicting direction. It was substantially 1959, as well as you was in my Plymouth. It was the pleasing balmy day, though the automobile that had been distant during the back of me, ran me down when he came over the hill. He was starting to quick to stop. He swung to the right; strike the mailbox upon the right, with by his back in to my rear, as well as my automobile in to the cousins of the wake line. you had cameras thrown opposite the highway. you was jolted, you had the whiplash as well as unequivocally bad jarred though O.K. you picked up the cameras as well as proposed receiving photographs, though you never had to uncover them. They knew you had them. My automobile was so aged that the cameras were value some-more than the car. They did give me some-more than the automobile was worth. you theory they were blissful you didn’t have vast healing bills. you waited roughly the eleven months as well as twenty-nine days according to Tennessee law. you paid for an additional second palm vehicle, that incited out to be the "lemon" God has unequivocally taken caring of this chicky by the years.
One of the nicest rewards in photography is the people you meet. The knew immature as well as abounding were regularly reaching for something they did not have, never confident with hold up as well as grabbing for some-more of what ever. Hard to prove as well as tough to photograph. you theory they did not know how to relax. On the alternative palm the leaders, presidents, CEOs were generally, for the many partial agreeable, great natured, happy, satisfied, inspirational as well as in all charity the little great recommendation that finished them most simpler to photograph. And afterwards the single you was regularly blissful to have met.
One of these people was Eva Jessey who destined Porgy as well as Bess. She was in Memphis for the opening during the Little Theater. A mutual group as well as contributor from New Orleans was in locale as well as brought her by the studio. you took her photograph. It was the genuine pleasure. My husband, Bill Bates, as well as you took her to dinner. But in the seventies anticipating the grill was not easy. you called the place where Bill as well as you ate the great bit as well as they put us in the luncheon room where there were usually the couple of people that was excellent with us as you could revisit better."
Nadia Strid
June 2000
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