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The South in Color. A Visual Journal.
William Ferris
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Description for The South in Color. A Visual Journal.
Since the moment William Ferris' parents him a Kodak Brownie Hawkeye camera in 1954, Ferris passionately began to photograph his world. He has never stopped. This beautiful, provocative collection of 100 of Ferris' photographs of the South, taken during his formative period, capture the power of his colour photography. Series: H. Eugene and Lillian Youngs Lehman Series. Num Pages: 144 pages, 103 Colour Plates. BIC Classification: 1KBBS; 3JJ; 3JM; AGN; AJB. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 241 x 203 x 18. Weight in Grams: 726.
One man’s power to capture his world in all its colours, surprises, and troubles.
Since the moment William Ferris’s parents gave their twelve-year-oldson a Kodak Brownie Hawkeye camera for Christmas in 1954, Ferris passionatelybegan to photograph his world. He has never stopped. The sixtiesand seventies were a particularly significant period for Ferris as he becamea pathbreaking documentarian of the American South. This beautiful,provocative collection of 100 of Ferris’s photographs of the South, takenduring this formative period, capture the power of his color photography.Color film, as Ferris points out in the book’s introduction, was not commonlyused by documentarians during ... Read more
One man’s power to capture his world in all its colours, surprises, and troubles.
Since the moment William Ferris’s parents gave their twelve-year-oldson a Kodak Brownie Hawkeye camera for Christmas in 1954, Ferris passionatelybegan to photograph his world. He has never stopped. The sixtiesand seventies were a particularly significant period for Ferris as he becamea pathbreaking documentarian of the American South. This beautiful,provocative collection of 100 of Ferris’s photographs of the South, takenduring this formative period, capture the power of his color photography.Color film, as Ferris points out in the book’s introduction, was not commonlyused by documentarians during ... Read more
Product Details
Publication date
2016
Publisher
The University of North Carolina Press United States
Number of pages
144
Condition
New
Series
H. Eugene and Lillian Youngs Lehman Series
Number of Pages
144
Format
Hardback
Place of Publication
Chapel Hill, United States
ISBN
9781469629681
SKU
V9781469629681
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About William Ferris
William Ferris is Joel R. Williamson Eminent Professor of History at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill and a former chairman of the National Endowment for the Humanities. With Ferris’s two previous books, Give My Poor Heart Ease and The Storied South, The South in Color completes an informal trilogy of Ferris’s documentation of the South’s tumultuous twentieth ... Read more
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