by Eudora Welty
First published 2019
Eudora Welty turned her lens on Mississippi during the 1930s, creating a visual record that reveals the humanity of her subjects with compassion and artistic sensitivity. Her camera traveled beyond the South to document life in New York, New Orleans, South Carolina, Mexico, and Europe throughout the 1930s, 1940s, and 1950s. This collection presents new digital scans from Welty's original negatives, restoring the clarity and detail of her images. The book includes sixteen previously unpublished photographs, several chosen by Welty herself for her 1936 New York exhibition. Pulitzer Prize winner Natasha Trethewey contributes a foreword to this visual journey through mid-century America and beyond, seen through the eyes of one of the South's most observant artists.
Genres: art, 20th-century, biography-memoir, photography
Vibes: emotional, intimate, thought-provoking
Tropes: historical-fiction, visual-storytelling
Setting: Europe, Mexico, Mississippi, New Orleans, New York, South Carolina
Period: 1930s, 1940s, 1950s
Unknown Binding · University Press of Mississippi