Eudora Welty Photographs
by Eudora Welty
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"Eudora Welty's Photographs, originally published in 1989, serves as the definitive book of the critically acclaimed writer's photographs. Her camera's view finder conveys deep compassion and her artist's sensibilities. Eudora Welty's Photographs is a deeply felt documentation of 1930s Mississippi taken by a keenly observant photographer who showed the human side of her subjects. Also included in the book are photographs from Welty's travels to New York, New Orleans, South Carolina, Mexico, show more and Europe in the 1930s, '40s, and '50s. The photographs in this edition are new digital scans of Welty's original negatives, restoring the images to their original glory. It also features sixteen additional images, several of which were selected by Welty for her 1936 photography exhibit in New York City and have never before been reproduced for publication, along with a resonant foreword by Pulitzer Prize-winning writer and Mississippi native Natasha Trethewey."--Provided by publisher. show lessTags
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While Eudora Welty is much better known as an author, she was also an accomplished photographer. This is a compilation of black and white photos taken in the 1930-1960 era. From a technical and composition point of view, they are gems. There is a certain amount of social editorializing in the photos done in her subtle, elegant manner, particularly in the photos of African-Americans who are seen sympathetically and humanly in a place and era where that wasn't always true.
I'm not at all sure this is true, but I like to think of her taking her photos with a Brownie Hawkeye (read inexpensive) camera, as opposed to a fancy European camera. To me, it fits her style.
A highly rated compilation of marvelous photographs...
I'm not at all sure this is true, but I like to think of her taking her photos with a Brownie Hawkeye (read inexpensive) camera, as opposed to a fancy European camera. To me, it fits her style.
A highly rated compilation of marvelous photographs...
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Eudora Welty was born in Jackson, Mississippi on April 13, 1909. She was educated at the Mississippi State College for Women in Columbus, Mississippi, and at the University of Wisconsin. She moved to New York in 1930 to study advertising at the Columbia University business school. After her father's death, she moved back to Jackson in 1931. She show more held various jobs on local newspapers and at a radio station before becoming a publicity agent for the Works Progress Administration (WPA), part of Franklin Roosevelt's New Deal program. Travelling through the state of Mississippi opened her eyes to the misery of the great depression and resulted in a series of photographs, which were exhibited in a one-women show in New York in 1936 and were eventually published as One Time, One Place: Mississippi in the Depression in 1971. She stopped working for the WPA in 1936. Her first stories, Magic and Death of a Travelling Salesman, were published in small magazines in 1936. Some of her better-known short stories are Why I Live at the P.O., Petrified Man, and A Worn Path. Her short story collections include A Curtain of Green, The Golden Apples, The Wide Net and Other Stories, and The Bride of Innisfallen and Other Stories. Her first novel, The Robber Bridegroom, was published in 1942. Her other novels include Delta Wedding, The Ponder Heart, Losing Battles, and The Optimist's Daughter, which won the Pulitzer Prize in 1972. She received the gold medal for fiction from the National Institute of Arts and Letters in 1972. Her nonfiction works include A Snapshot Album, The Eye of the Storm: Selected Essays and Reviews, and One Writer's Beginnings. She died from complications following pneumonia on July 23, 2001 at the age of 92. (Bowker Author Biography) show less
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