Research Catalog

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Additional authors

1. Harris, Gregory J.
2. Kennel, Sarah
3. Perry, Imani, 1972-
4. Best, Makeda, 1975-
5. Brooks, LeRonn P.
6. Fortune, Rahim
7. Hale, Grace Elizabeth
8. Kelly, Maria L.
9. Matthews, Scott L.
10. Piper, Brian (Art museum curator)
11. High Museum of Art, host institution, publisher
12. Addison Gallery of American Art, host institution
13. Virginia Museum of Fine Arts, host institution

Description

1. 351 pages : illustrations (some color), portraits, photographs (some color); 30 cm

Summary

1. "An in-depth look at the history of photography in the Southern United States, with over two hundred photographs taken from 1850 to present"--
2. "The South is perhaps the most mythologized region in the United States and also one of the most depicted. Since the dawn of photography in the nineteenth century, photographers have articulated the distinct and evolving character of the South's people, landscape, and culture and reckoned with its fraught history. Indeed, many of the urgent questions we face today about what defines the American experience--from racism, poverty, and the legacy of slavery to environmental disaster, immigration, and the changes wrought by a modern, global economy--appear as key themes in the photography of the South. The visual history of the South is inextricably intertwined with the history of photography and also the history of America, and is therefore an apt lens through which to examine American identity. A Long Arc: Photography and the American South accompanies a major exhibition at the High Museum of Art in Atlanta, with more than one hundred photographers represented, including Walker Evans, Robert Frank, Gordon Parks, William Eggleston, Sally Mann, Carrie Mae Weems, Dawoud Bey, Alec Soth, and An-My L̊. Insightful texts by Imani Perry, Sarah Kennel, Makeda Best, and Rahim Fortune, among others, illuminate this broad survey of photographs of the Southern United States as an essential American story." --

Alternative title

1. Photography and the American South since 1845

Subject

1. Photography
2. Architectural photography
3. Black author
4. History
5. Exhibition catalogs
6. Catalogs
7. High Museum of Art
8. Catalogues d'exposition
9. exhibition catalogs
10. États-Unis (Sud) > Dans l'art > Expositions
11. États-Unis (Sud) > Histoire
12. Photographie > États-Unis (Sud) > Expositions
13. Photographie > États-Unis (Sud) > Histoire
14. Southern States > History
15. Southern States > In art > Exhibitions
16. Photography > Southern States > Exhibitions
17. Photography > Southern States > History
18. High Museum of Art Catalogs

Genre/Form

1. Catalogs.
2. Exhibition catalogs.
3. History.

Contents

1. Director's foreword / by Rand Suffolk -- Incomplete puzzle / Imani Perry -- Some American pictures : photography, history, and the American South, 1845-1940 / Sarah Kennel -- 1845-1865 To vex the nation : the antebellum South and the Civil War / Makeda Best -- 1865-1930 Less Splendid on the surface / Brian Piper -- 1930-1945 The cruel radiance : a new documentary tradition / Scott L. Matthews -- 1945-1970 History as myth, progress as peril / Grace Elizabeth Hale -- 1956-1968 Civil rights and the language of activism / LeRonn P. Brooks -- 1970-2000 Returns and renewals / Maria L. Kelly -- 2000-Now a new South, again / Gregory J. Harris -- Afterword / by Rahim Fortune

Call number

1. Sc F 24-39

Note

1. Copublished with the High Museum of Art on the occasion of the exhibition, A Long Arc Photography and the American South since 1845 curated by Gregory J. Harris and Sarah Kennel and on view at the High Museum in Atlanta, September 15, 2023 to January 14, 2024; the Addison Gallery of American Art in Andover, Massachusetts, March 1, 2024 to July 31, 2024; and the Virginia Museum of Fine Arts in Richmond, Virginia, October 5, 2024 to January 26, 2025.

Bibliography (note)

1. Includes bibliographical references.

Exhibitions (note)

1. Exhibited: "A Long Arc Photography and the American South since 1845", Atlanta, September 15, 2023 to January 14, 2024; Andover (Mass.), March 1, 2024 to July 31, 2024; Richmond (Virginia), October 5, 2024 to January 26, 2025.

Title

1. A long arc : photography and the American South since 1845 / Gregory J. Harris, Sarah Kennel ; essay: Imani Perry ; additional texts: Makeda Best, LeRonn P. Brooks, Rahim Fortune, Grace Elizabeth Hale, Maria L. Kelly, Scott L. Matthews, Brian Piper.

Publisher

1. New York, NY : Aperture, 2023.

Copyright date

1. ©2023

Edition

1. First edition.

Type of content

1. text
2. still image

Type of medium

1. unmediated

Type of carrier

1. volume

Bibliography

1. Includes bibliographical references.

Exhibitions

1. Exhibited: "A Long Arc Photography and the American South since 1845", Atlanta, September 15, 2023 to January 14, 2024; Andover (Mass.), March 1, 2024 to July 31, 2024; Richmond (Virginia), October 5, 2024 to January 26, 2025.

Local subject

1. Black author.

Added author

1. Harris, Gregory J., curator.
2. Kennel, Sarah, curator.
3. Perry, Imani, 1972- contributor.
4. Best, Makeda, 1975- contributor.
5. Brooks, LeRonn P., contributor.
6. Fortune, Rahim, contributor.
7. Hale, Grace Elizabeth, contributor.
8. Kelly, Maria L., contributor.
9. Matthews, Scott L., contributor.
10. Piper, Brian (Art museum curator), contributor.
11. High Museum of Art, host institution, publisher.
12. Addison Gallery of American Art, host institution.
13. Virginia Museum of Fine Arts, host institution.

LCCN

1. 2023018641

ISBN

1. 9781597115513 (hardbound)
2. 1597115517 (hardbound)

Research call number

1. Sc F 24-39
2. JQF 24-91