RADAR Vol. 1: Red Clay

by Nydia Blas (Photographer), Tim Davis (Photographer), Maury Gortemiller (Photographer), Laura Noel (Photographer)

Overview

Each installment of Fall Line’s new series RADAR examines a geographical region, with the inaugural issue, Red Clay, exploring the American South. Artists Nydia Blas, Tim Davis, Maury Gortemiller, Laura Noel, and Anderson Scott are joined by Pulitzer Prize winning poet Forrest Gander in depicting the mythic region.

Red Clay consists of 5 photobooks and 1 book of poetry housed in a custom made slipcase. The books comprising Red Clay are as varied as the region they depict.

Blas’s contribution details the impressions of an African American woman experiencing the South in person after years of living elsewhere; Tim Davis explores with humor and poignancy surreal images from Florida and nearby; Laura Noel’s contribution focuses on individuals who are on their “smoke break” and enjoying a cigarette; Gortemiller uses Donald Trump’s The Art of the Deal as inspiration for constructed images that are by turns compelling and uneasy; and Scott documents the architectural remnants of the now defunct religious cult, the Nuwabians, based in Georgia. Lastly, Gander ties everything together with poems inspired by each artist’s photographs.

 

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781734831238
Publisher:	Continental Sales, Inc.
Publication date:	08/05/2025
Series:	RADAR
Pages:	230
Product dimensions:	6.80(w) x 9.25(h) x 0.00(d)

About the Author

Nydia Blas is a visual artist who grew up in Ithaca, New York and currently resides in Atlanta, Georgia. She holds a B.S. from Ithaca College, and received her M.F.A. from Syracuse University in the College of Visual and Performing Arts. She is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Art and Visual Culture at Spelman College in Atlanta, Georgia. Her photographs have been commissioned by The New York Times, The Atlantic, The New Yorker, The Washington Post and more. Tim Davis is an American visual artist and poet, based in New York City and Tivoli, New York. He is the author and subject of several books of photography, plus a book of poetry. He was awarded the Rome Prize in 2007. Maury Gortemiller is an Atlanta-based photographer and educator. His work has appeared in exhibitions at the Museum of Contemporary Art of Georgia (MOCA GA), the Ogden Museum of Southern Art in New Orleans and the Aperture Foundation Gallery in New York. He also writes on photography and contemporary art issues, most recently in Art Papers, Perdiz Magazine and The New Encyclopedia of Southern Culture (University Press of Mississippi). More recently, his photography appeared in Time Magazine's “The South” issue and his first monograph Do the Priest in Different Voices was published in 2019 by Aint-Bad Press. Laura Noel is a photographer and installation artist based in Atlanta, Georgia. She is a Walthall Fellow and a recipient of an Idea Capital Grant. Her work is in the collection of The High Museum of Art, The George Eastman Museum, The Ogden Museum in New Orleans, the Gregg Museum of Art and Design, MOCA GA and a number of private and public collections. Anderson Scott was born in Montgomery, AL in 1961. He graduated with an MFA in Photography from Yale in 1987. His work is in many collections throughout the United States. His photography book about confederate reenactors entitled “Whistling Dixie” was published in 2013 and was reviewed by Slate, Wired and the Wall Street Journal, among many others. Several pieces of his work are included in the traveling exhibition “Southbound” which originated at the Halsey Institute in 2018. Forrest Gander is an American poet, translator, essayist, and novelist. The A.K. Seaver Professor Emeritus of Literary Arts & Comparative Literature at Brown University, Gander won the Pulitzer Prize for Poetry in 2019 for Be With and is chancellor of the Academy of American Poets and a member of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences.