Description: Capturing the South: Imagining America's Most Documented Region (PaperbackConditionBrand New: A new, unread, unused book in perfect condition with no missing or damaged pages. See the ... Read moreabout the conditionEAN9781469646459ISBN1469646455BindingTPBook TitleCapturing the South : Imagining America's Most Documented RegionItem Length9.2inPublisherUniversity of North Carolina PressPublication Year2018FormatTrade PaperbackLanguageEnglishItem Height0.8inAuthorScott L. MatthewsGenrePhotography, History, Social ScienceTopicUnited States / State & Local / South (Al, Ar, FL, GA, Ky, La, ms, Nc, SC, Tn, VA, WV), United States / 20th Century, General, Research, Photoessays & DocumentariesItem Width6.1inItem Weight1 OzNumber of Pages328 PagesProduct InformationIn his expansive history of documentary work in the South during the twentieth century, Scott L. Matthews examines the motivations and methodologies of several pivotal documentarians, including sociologist Howard Odum, photographers Jack Delano and Danny Lyon, and music ethnographer John Cohen. Their work salvaged and celebrated folk cultures threatened by modernization or strived to reveal and reform problems linked to the region's racial caste system and exploitative agricultural economy. Images of alluring primitivism and troubling pathology often blurred together, neutralizing the aims of documentary work carried out in the name of reform during the Progressive era, New Deal, and civil rights movement. Black and white southerners in turn often resisted documentarians' attempts to turn their private lives into public symbols. The accumulation of these influential and, occasionally, controversial documentary images created an enduring, complex, and sometimes self-defeating mythology about the South that persists into the twenty-first century.
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Binding: TP
EAN: 9781469646459
ISBN: 1469646455
Book Title: Capturing the South : Imagining America's Most Documented Region
Number of Pages: 328 Pages
Language: English
Publisher: University of North Carolina Press
Topic: United States / 20th Century, United States / State & Local / South (Al, Ar, Fl, Ga, Ky, La, ms, Nc, SC, Tn, VA, WV), General, Research, Photoessays & Documentaries
Item Height: 0.8 in
Publication Year: 2018
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Genre: Social Science, Photography, History
Item Weight: 1 Oz
Author: Scott L. Matthews
Item Length: 9.2 in
Item Width: 6.1 in
Book Series: Documentary Arts and Culture, Published in Association with the Center for Documentary Studies at Duke University Ser.
Format: Trade Paperback
