TY  - GEN
T1  - O. N. Pruitt's Possum Town  : Photographing Trouble and Resilience in the American South.
T2  - Documentary Arts and Culture, Published in Association with the Center for Documentary Studies at Duke University Ser.
A1  - Hudson, Berkley
A2  - Rankin, Tom
LA  - English
PP  - Chapel Hill
PB  - University of North Carolina Press
YR  - 2022
UL  - https://ebooks.jgu.edu.in/Record/ebsco_acadsubs_on1290485059
AB  - 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 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 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 190 images with a biographical introduction and Hudson's short essays and reflective captions on subjects such as religion, ethnic identity, the ordinary graces of everyday life, and the exercise of brutal power.
OP  - 269
NO  - Description based upon print version of record.
CN  - TR820.5
SN  - 1469662728
SN  - 9781469662725
SN  - 9781469662701
KW  - Pruitt, O. N., : 1891-1967.
KW  - Documentary photography : Mississippi : Columbus.
KW  - Photographs as information resources.
KW  - Photographs : Social aspects.
KW  - Photographs : Psychological aspects.
KW  - Photographers : Mississippi : Columbus : Biography.
KW  - Columbus (Miss.) : Social life and customs : Pictorial works.
KW  - Photographie documentaire : Mississippi : Columbus.
KW  - Photographies (Sources d'information)
KW  - Photographies : Aspect social.
KW  - Photographes : Mississippi : Columbus : Biographies.
KW  - PHOTOGRAPHY / Photoessays & Documentaries
KW  - Documentary photography
KW  - Manners and customs
KW  - Photographers
KW  - Photographs as information resources
KW  - Photographs : Psychological aspects
KW  - Mississippi : Columbus
KW  - Biographies
KW  - Pictorial works
ER  -