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eudora welty
July 2009 
the photography of Eudora Welty
Posted on Nov 1st, 2007
by 
Laura
Laura
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I'm not a big fan of Welty's writing, though I certainly acknowledge her talent. I prefer Carson MCullers and Flannery O'Connor and even, more recently, much of Mary Hood's fiction. But I do love her photography, and she was a photographer before she published any fiction. There's something about her Southern Gothic eye that feels true. These bottle trees are kind of like the swept dirt yards of South Georgia, or boiled peanuts--there's a strong sense of the particularity of place in them.
(contemporay photographer Rosalind Solomon reminds me of Welty a bit, but Solomon is more daring, I think.)
http://www.walterandersonmuseum.org/po.html These images are from Mississippi's Walter Inglis Anderson Museum.
http://www.smponline.org/fall_2005/welty_01.htm from the Southeast Museum of Photography.
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Photo seven reminds me of the cover of Gillian Welch's Revival CD. John Patrick Salisbury is listed as the photographer. These are very nice.
thank you, andy. yeah, you're right about revival. i love gillian welch. do you know clarence john laughlin's photography?
I didn't. I looked him up. He uses a View Camera. Are you familiar with them? I didn't have time to read the whole article but unlike a typical camera, the lens aren't fixed parallel. There's something about pictures taken with those cameras.
hmm, no I'm not. I'll look into them. Horace Bristol?
Horace Bristol traveled with John Steinbeck…interesting. I like his pictures.
yeah. he and steinbeck were going to do a book together, as i understand it, sort of like james agee and walker evans did with let us now praise famous men, but it went wrong somehow and steinbeck ended up with grapes of wrath.
the potos are great (I've always enjoyed b/w photos…), thanks for sharing them!