1996 Olympic Arts Festival In William Faulkner’s novel Absalom, Absalom! Shreve McCannon implored his southern-born roommate to “Tell about the South. What’s it like there. What do they do there. Why do they live there. Why do they live at all.”
University Press of Mississippi, 1993 Growing up in Georgia, we attended my father’s “country” church on occasion during the year and always on “First Sunday”—the church’s homecoming that fell on the first Sunday of each August. There were some differences between my father’s church and the “city” church (in a town with a population of »
North Carolina Humanities Council, 1994 When the White Furniture Company of Mebane, North Carolina, was shut down in 1993, it fell victim to what social scientists call deindustrialization. To the 203 employees and their three thousand fellow townspeople, however, the event felt like a death in the family. “I coulda just cried,” said James Blalock, »
“Few know his name.” In 1450 Johannes Gutenberg revolutionized the transmission of information, and schoolchildren still honor him as the inventor of the printing press. Nearly four hundred years later, Nicéphore Niepce touched off a similar revolution when he placed a camera in his attic window and created an image of his courtyard. Few know »
Photo Essay
“Phelps’s images hold a kind of interest and value that a stranger’s cannot.” Editor’s Note: Since this piece was first published in 1994, the T.R. Phelps collection has moved from Emory & Henry College back to private ownership. The work of T.R. Phelps still remains largely untapped by scholars. The camera work of T. R. »
Gainesville: University Press of Florida, 1992. Texas A&M University Press, 1992. By the late nineteenth century, virtually every Main Street in the United States boasted a photographer’s shingle. No longer did small-town newlyweds, graduates, and decorated veterans have to seek an itinerant cameraman or venture to a metropolis in order to declare themselves in the »