Research Catalog

Title

Into the flatland / photographs by Kathleen Robbins ; short story by Cynthia Shearer.

Author

Robbins, Kathleen

Publication

• Columbia, South Carolina : The University of South Carolina Press, [2015]
• ©2015

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Details

Additional Authors

• Shearer, Cynthia
• Rankin, Tom
• Shearer, Cynthia.

Description

xii, 60 pages : color illustrations; 25 cm

Summary

"Capturing the rich contrasts of the land and the intimate history of generations in the Mississippi Delta, Into the Flatland, by Kathleen Robbins, is a series of photographs documenting the terrain, people, and culture of her ancestry. The photographer returned to her family's farm Belle Chase as an adult in 2001 after completing graduate studies in New Mexico. She and her brother then lived there for nearly two years, breathing life back into family properties that had been long dormant. In this series, which won the Photo-NOLA prize in 2011, Robbins highlights the diversity of the landscape of the Delta, from expansive, dusty cotton fields to green, vibrant swamps. Her photographs capture the people and the architecture that are present on the land and also reminiscent of a time long past, before the mechanization of farming and the exodus of her people from their native soil. The presence of Robbins's family in some of her photographs brings an intimacy to her portrait of the delta and shows the tension between past and present. Including a short story by a National Endowment for the Arts recipient, Cynthia Shearer, Into the Flatland transports the reader into the rich history of Mississippi. At turns both colorful and gray, the photographs capture not only the Delta landscape, but also the stark and rugged images of people and buildings that sink as deeply into the land as the roots of the trees in the woods and swamps. As large masses of birds flock to the vast blue sky, Robbins remains fixed on the ground, her lens trained on the home and the landscape of her past. The foreword is written by photographer, filmmaker, and folklorist Tom Rankin who serves as director of the Center for Documentary Studies and is an associate professor of the Practice of Art and Documentary Studies at Duke University"--

Uniform Title

Project Muse UPCC books

Subject

• PHOTOGRAPHY / Subjects & Themes / Regional (see also TRAVEL / Pictorials)
• Historic buildings > Mississippi > Delta (Region) > Pictorial works
• Landscapes > Mississippi > Delta (Region) > Pictorial works
• Landscape photography > Mississippi > Delta (Region)
• PHOTOGRAPHY / Subjects & Themes / Landscapes
• FICTION / Literary
• Historic buildings
• Landscape photography
• Landscapes
• Manners and customs
• Delta (Miss. : Region) > Pictorial works
• Delta (Miss. : Region) > Social life and customs > Pictorial works
• Delta (Miss. : Region) > Biography > Pictorial works
• Delta (Miss. : Region) > History, Local > Pictorial works
• Mississippi > Delta (Region)

Genre/Form

• Biographies – Pictorial works
• Local history
• Pictorial works
• Biographies – Pictorial works.
• Local history.
• Pictorial works.

Note

• Foreword by Tom Rankin.

Processing Action (note)

• committed to retain

Contents

The photographs -- Still life with shotgun and oranges / Cynthia Shearer.

ISBN

• 9781611174151 (hardbound : alkaline paper)
• 1611174155 (hardbound : alkaline paper)
• 9781611174168 (ebook) (canceled/invalid)

LCCN

^^2014032913

OCLC

• 893455663
• SCSB-11987216

Owning Institutions

Harvard Library