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Roadside South (Hardcover)
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Roadside South (Hardcover)
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Much of the American South, especially its small towns and rural
areas, is connected not by interstate highways but through a
web-like network of country roads, many of which appear only on the
most detailed of maps. These are the backroads that most
Southerners drive on every day. Unlike the interstates, whose
roadsides have been largely scrubbed clean of regional character,
these smaller roads travel through unplanned, vernacular landscapes
that tell much about local life, both past and present, and suggest
that we make connections between the two. David Wharton has been
traveling throughout the American South since 1999, resulting in
his first two books - Small Town South (2012) and The Power of
Belief: Spiritual Landscapes from the Rural South (2016). As he
journeyed, he often paused to make pictures of hamlets and the
countryside he was driving through that did not fit the themes of
those earlier books. These are scenes that speak to a sense of
wonderment, or curiosity, about how those landscapes came to be and
how they reflect a complex past with a modern-day world in which
the urban competes with the rural in nearly every way. In Roadside
South, the third book in Wharton's magical Trilogy of the American
South, the photographer captures the quirky and the humorous, the
sometimes sad and sometimes ironic scenes that are commonplace
along the local, county, and state roads of the South. No artist
has revealed the on-the-ground truth of the South as Wharton has,
giving rise to a new understanding of and appreciation for a
distinctive regional culture that all too frequently, and sometimes
mistakenly, is imagined as a bastion of rural and small-town
virtue.
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