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Capturing the South - Imagining America's Most Documented Region (Hardcover)
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Capturing the South - Imagining America's Most Documented Region (Hardcover)
Series: Documentary Arts and Culture, Published in association with the Center for Documentary Studies at Duke University
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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.
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