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O. N. Pruitt's Possum Town - Photographing Trouble and Resilience in the American South (Hardcover)
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O. N. Pruitt's Possum Town - Photographing Trouble and Resilience in the American South (Hardcover)
Series: Documentary Arts and Culture, Published in association with the Center for Documentary Studies at Duke University
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Photographer O. N. Pruitt (1891-1967) was for some forty years the
de facto documentarian of Lowndes County, Mississippi, and its
county seat, Columbus--known to locals as "Possum Town." His body
of work recalls many FSA photographers, but Pruitt was not an
outsider with an agenda; he was a community member with intimate
knowledge of the town and its residents. He photographed his fellow
White citizens and Black ones as well, in circumstances ranging
from the mundane to the horrific: family picnics, parades, river
baptisms, carnivals, fires, funerals, two of Mississippi's last
public and legal executions by hanging, and most grimly, a
lynching. From formal portraits to candid images of events in the
moment, Pruitt's documentary of a specific yet representative
southern town offers viewers today an invitation to meditate on the
vexing interrelations of photography, community, race, and
historical memory. Columbus native Berkley Hudson was photographed
by Pruitt, and for more than three decades he has considered and
curated Pruitt's expansive archive, both as a scholar of media and
visual journalism and as a community member. This stunning book
presents Pruitt's photography as never before, combining more than
150 images with a biographical introduction and Hudson's short
essays and reflective captions on subjects such as religion and
racial violence, small-town work-life and entertainment, and the
idea of visual legacy as linked to historical memory.
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