Name: The South in Color: A Visual Journal (H. Eugene and Lillian Youngs Lehman Series)
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Author: Ferris, William ; Rankin, Tom
ISBN: 9781469629681

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The South in Color: A Visual Journal (H. Eugene and Lillian Youngs Lehman Series)

Type

Physical Book

Author

William Ferris

Preface by

Tom Rankin

Publisher

University of North Carolina Press

Language

English

Format

Hardcover

Dimensions

24.4 x 20.1 x 1.8 cm

Weight

0.73 kg.

ISBN13

9781469629681

Synopsis "The South in Color: A Visual Journal (H. Eugene and Lillian Youngs Lehman Series)"

Since the moment William Ferris's parents gave their twelve-year-old son a Kodak Brownie Hawkeye camera for Christmas in 1954, Ferris passionately began to photograph his world. He has never stopped. The sixties and seventies were a particularly significant period for Ferris as he became a pathbreaking documentarian of the American South. This beautiful, provocative collection of 100 of Ferris's photographs of the South, taken during this formative period, capture the power of his color photography. Color film, as Ferris points out in the book's introduction, was not commonly used by documentarians during the latter half of the twentieth century, but Ferris found color to work in significant ways in the photographic journals he created of his world in all its permutations and surprises. The volume opens with images of his family's farm and its workers--family and hired--southeast of Vicksburg, Mississippi. The images are at once lyrical and troubling. As Ferris continued to photograph people and their homes, churches, and blues clubs, their handmade signs and folk art, and the roads that wound through the region, divisive racial landscapes become part of the record. A foreword by Tom Rankin, professor of visual studies and former director of the Center for Documentary Studies at Duke University, provides rich insight into Ferris's work.

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