A Long Arc: Photography and the American South by Imani Perry & Sarah Kennel & Makeda Best & Rahim Fortune

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Collects over 175 years of key moments in the visual history of the Southern United States, with over two hundred and fifty photographs taken from 1845 to present.

The South is perhaps the most mythologized region in the United States and also one of the most depicted. Since the dawn of photography in the nineteenth century, photographers have articulated the distinct and evolving character of the South™s people, landscape, and culture and reckoned with its fraught history. Indeed, many of the urgent questions we face today about what defines the American experience ” from racism, poverty, and the legacy of slavery to environmental disaster, immigration, and the changes wrought by a modern, global economy” appear as key themes in the photography of the South.

ISBN: 9781597115513
Author(s): Imani Perry & Sarah Kennel & Makeda Best & Rahim Fortune