Exposing Mississippi : Eudora Welty's Photographic Reflections Paperback / softback

by Annette Trefzer

Part of the Critical Perspectives on Eudora Welty series

Paperback / softback

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Internationally known as a writer, Eudora Welty has as well been spotlighted as a talented photographer.

The prevalent idea remains that Welty simply took snapshots before she found her true calling as a renowned fiction writer.

But who was Welty as a photographer? What did she see? How and why did she photograph? And what did Welty know about modern photography? In Exposing Mississippi: Eudora Welty's Photographic Reflections, Annette Trefzer elucidates Weltyâ€™s photographic vision and answers these questions by exploring her photographic archive and writings on photography. The photographs Welty took in the 1930s and â€™40s frame her visual response to the cultural landscapes of the segregated South during the Depression.

The photobook One Time, One Place, which was selected, curated, and shaped into a visual narrative by Welty herself, serves as a starting point and guide for the following chapters on her spatial hermeneutic.

The book is divided into sections by locations and offers how the framing of these areas reveals Weltyâ€™s radical commentary of the spaces her camera captured.

There are over eighty images in Exposing Mississippi, including some never-before-seen archival photographs, and sections of the book draw on over three hundred more.

The chapters on institutional, leisure, and memorial landscapes address how Weltyâ€™s photographs contribute to, reflect on, and intervene in customary visual constructions of the Depression-era South.