Research Catalog

Title

The South in color : a visual journal / William Ferris ; foreword by Tom Rankin.

Author

Ferris, William R.

Publication

Chapel Hill : The University of North Carolina Press, [2016]

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Additional Authors

Rankin, Tom

Description

xviii, 120 pages; 25 cm.

Summary

Since the moment William Ferris's parents gave their twelve-year-old son a Kodak Brownie Hawkeye camera for Christmas in 1954, Ferris passionately began to photograph his world. He has never stopped. The sixties and seventies were a particularly significant period for Ferris as he became a pathbreaking documentarian of the American South. This beautiful, provocative collection of one hundred of Ferris's photographs of the South, taken during this formative period, capture the power of his color photography. Color film, as Ferris points out in the book's introduction, was not commonly used by documentarians during the latter half of the twentieth century, but Ferris found color to work in significant ways in the photographic journals he created of his world in all its permutations and surprises.

Series Statement

H. Eugene and Lillian Youngs Lehman series

Uniform Title

H. Eugene and Lillian Youngs Lehman series.

Subject

• Southern States > Pictorial works
• Southern States

Genre/Form

• Pictorial works
• Pictorial works.

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references.

Processing Action (note)

• committed to retain

Contents

Photographs: The farm -- Portraits -- Buildings -- Handmade color -- Roads traveled.

ISBN

• 9781469629681
• 1469629682
• 9781469629698 (canceled/invalid)

LCCN

^^2016012009

OCLC

• 944956498
• SCSB-11484627

Owning Institutions

Harvard Library