The South in Color (eBook)

A Visual Journal

William Ferris (Autor)

eBook Download: EPUB

2016
144 Seiten
The University of North Carolina Press (Verlag)
978-1-4696-2969-8 (ISBN)

Infos

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.

Produkt-Details

• Erscheint lt. Verlag: 1.7.2016
• Reihe/Serie: H. Eugene and Lillian Youngs Lehman Series
• Reihe/Serie: H. Eugene and Lillian Youngs Lehman Series
• Vorwort: Tom Rankin
• Zusatzinfo: 103 color plates, bibl.
• Verlagsort: Chapel Hill
• Sprache: englisch
• Maße: 200 x 200 mm
• Themenwelt: Kunst / Musik / Theater ► Allgemeines / Lexika
• Themenwelt: Kunst / Musik / Theater ► Fotokunst
• Themenwelt: Sachbuch/Ratgeber ► Freizeit / Hobby ► Sammeln / Sammlerkataloge
• Schlagworte: Adobe Photoshop Lightroom • “Get Right With God” Road Sign • Alex Haley • Apple Laptop Computer • B.B. King • Black Religion • Black Wedding • Blues Jook Joints • Carved Walking Cane • Caterpillar • Color Photography • cotton • Country Store • Crepe Myrtle Tree • Davidson College • Eudora Welty • Fireworks Salesman • Folk Paintings • Frederic Ramsey, Jr. • “Get Right With God” Road Sign • Hale County, Alabama • Hand Made Quilts • Hand Painted Road Signs • Hay Harvest • Highway 61 • Horses • iphone 6 Plus • Jackson State University • Kodak Brownie Hawkeye Camera • kudzu • Livestock Auction Barn • National Endowment for the Humanities • Nikon 35mm Camera • Parchman Penitentiary Inmates • prison life • Rose Hill Church • Rural Churches • Rural Homes • Soy Beans • University of Mississippi • University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill • University of Pennsylvania • Vicksburg, Mississippi • Walker Evans • William Christenberry • William Eggleston • Yale University
• ISBN-10: 1-4696-2969-0 / 1469629690
• ISBN-13: 978-1-4696-2969-8 / 9781469629698