American Studies: An article from Southern Cultures 17:2, The Photography Issue

by Michael Carlebach

Overview

So often we see photographs of a humorless South, but Michael Carlebach reminds us to smile at ourselves.This article appears in the Summer 2011 issue of Southern Cultures:The Photography Issue."Many years ago I concluded that for me truth and beauty, and perhaps wit and wisdom as well, are more likely to reside in what is ordinary and seemingly insignificant. This is, perhaps, a sideways look at America and American culture, but it is one that can produce moments that describe us all, but without makeup and bereft of a spokesperson."

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780807882436
Publisher:	UNC Center for the Study of the American South
Publication date:	06/01/2011
Sold by:	Barnes & Noble
Format:	eBook
File size:	3 MB

About the Author

Michael Carlebach lived and photographed in south Florida for over three and a half decades. As a professor at the University of Miami, he taught classes in photojournalism, American studies, and art history. He now lives in Asheville, North Carolina. His publications include The Origins of Photojournalism in America (1992), American Photojournalism Comes of Age (1998), and Working Stiffs: Occupational Portraits in the Age of Tintypes (2002), all published by the Smithsonian Institution Press.