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O.N. Pruitt's Possum Town : photographing trouble & resilience in the American South / Berkley Hudson.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Hudson, Fraser Berkley, author.
- Series:
- Documentary arts and culture.
- North Carolina scholarship online.
- Documentary arts and culture
- North Carolina scholarship online
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Documentary photography--Mississippi--Columbus.
- Documentary photography.
- Photographs as information resources.
- Photographs--Social aspects.
- Photographs.
- Photographs--Psychological aspects.
- Columbus (Miss.)--Social life and customs--Pictorial works.
- Columbus (Miss.).
- Pruitt, O. N., 1891-1967.
- Pruitt, O. N.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (269 pages)
- Other Title:
- Possum Town
- Place of Publication:
- Chapel Hill : The University of North Carolina Press, [2023]
- Summary:
- Photographer O. N. Pruitt (1891-1967) was, for some 40 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. 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 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.
- Notes:
- Published in association with the Center for Documentary Studies at Duke University.
- Previously issued in print: 2022.
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (viewed on May 29, 2023).
- Contains:
- Pruitt, O. N., 1891-1967. Works. Selections.
- ISBN:
- 9798890856005
- 9798890856012
- 9781469662725
- 1469662728
- OCLC:
- 1291873276
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