Photographs

by Eudora Welty, Reynolds Price (Foreword by), Natasha Trethewey (Foreword by)

Overview

Eudora Welty’s Photographs, originally published in 1989, serves as the definitive book of the critically acclaimed writer’s photographs. Her camera’s viewfinder captured deep compassion and her artist’s sensibilities. Photographs is a deeply felt documentation of 1930s Mississippi taken by a keenly observant photographer who showed the human side of her subjects. Also included in the book are pictures from Welty’s travels to New York, New Orleans, South Carolina, Mexico, and Europe in the 1930s, ’40s, and ’50s.

The photographs in this edition are new digital scans of Welty’s original negatives and authentic prints, restoring the images to their original glory. It also features sixteen additional images, several of which were selected by Welty for her 1936 photography exhibit in New York City and have never before been reproduced for publication, along with a resonant, new foreword by Pulitzer Prize–winning writer and Mississippi native Natasha Trethewey.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781496823922
Publisher:	University Press of Mississippi
Publication date:	03/18/2019
Sold by:	Barnes & Noble
Format:	eBook
Pages:	232
Sales rank:	762,211
File size:	23 MB
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About the Author

Eudora Welty (1909–2001) is the author of many novels and story collections, including the Pulitzer Prize–winning novel The Optimist’s Daughter, Losing Battles, The Ponder Heart, The Robber Bridegroom, and A Curtain of Green and Other Stories, as well as collections of her photographic work Country Churchyards and One Time, One Place: Mississippi in the Depression, both published by University Press of Mississippi.
Eudora Welty is author of many novels and story collections, including The Optimist’s Daughter (winner of the Pulitzer Prize), Losing Battles, The Ponder Heart, The Robber Bridegroom, A Curtain of Green and Other Stories, as well as three collections of her photographic work—Photographs, Country Churchyards, and One Time, One Place: Mississippi in the Depression, all published by University Press of Mississippi.

Date of Birth:

April 13, 1909

Date of Death:

July 23, 2001

Place of Birth:

Jackson, Mississippi

Place of Death:

Jackson, Mississippi

Education:

University of Wisconsin

Editorial Reviews

First published in 1989, reprinted here in paper covers; the ISBN printed on the book belongs to the original cloth edition (the one we cite is correct). Presents a collection of the writer's eloquent black & white photographs, mostly of black people in the South, with an introductory interview conducted by Reynolds Price. Annotation c. Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknews.com)

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