Capturing the South - Imagining America's Most Documented Region (Paperback)

In 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 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.

General

Imprint:	The University of North Carolina Press
Country of origin:	United States
Series:	Documentary Arts and Culture, Published in association with the Center for Documentary Studies at Duke University
Release date:	November 2018
Authors:	Scott L. Matthews
Dimensions:	235 x 155 x 27mm (L x W x T)
Format:	Paperback
Pages:	352
ISBN-13:	978-1-4696-4645-9
Categories:	Books > Humanities > History > History of other lands Books > Arts & Architecture > Photography & photographs > Special kinds of photography > General Books > Humanities > History > American history > General Books > History > American history > General Books > History > History of other lands Promotions
LSN:	1-4696-4645-5
Barcode:	9781469646459

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