Aperture 115 - Summer 1989

New Southern Photography: Between Myth and Reality

This issue celebrates the richness and diversity of Southern visions, reflecting the richness and diversity of the South itself—a South that is not simply a geographical location but a state of mind, a land in which myths are often more familiar and more powerful than reality.

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Issue Details

This book brings together challenging photographs that focus on the tense edge between conflicting worlds: North/South, East/West, First/Third. Illustrated.
Format: Paperback / softback
Number of pages: 80
Publication date: 1989-09-01
Measurements: 9.5 x 11.3 x 0.1 inches
ISBN: 9780893813789


Table Of Contents

New Southern Photography: Between Myth and Reality

King Cotton’s New Clothes
By Theodore Rosengarten
Photographs by Jon McWilliams

Debbie Fleming Caffery: A Land and Its People
Photographs by Debbie Fleming Caffery

Photography’s New Southern Dream
By Dave Smith
Photographs by Baldwin Lee, Paul Kwilecki, Bill Bamberger, Rob Amberg, Shelby Lee Adams, Birney Imes, Roland Freeman, and Thomas Daniel

Neighbors and Kin
By Reynolds Price
Photographs by Caroline Vaughan, Sally Mann, Margaret Sartor, and Eric Green

An Interview with William Eggleston
By Charles Hagen
Photographs by William Eggleston

William Christenberry: Memory Palaces
Photographs by William Christenberry

A Land of Myth and Dreams
By Nancy Barrett
Photographs by Linda Adele Goodine, Karen Graffeo, and Karekin Goekjian

Public Presences
Photographs by Alex Harris and Dennis O’Kain

Nick Nichols’s Tacky Tour of the South
Text and photographs by Michael Nichols

Big Boss Man
By Bobbie Ann Mason

When the Sharp Shinned Hawk Appears in the Boxwood Near the Feeding Station, It Is Time for Us Song Birds to Be Very Careful . . .
By Jonathan Williams
Photographs by Lucinda Bunnen and Virginia Smith, Guy Mendes, Roger Manley, and George Dureau

People and Ideas
New Southern Photo Art: Pushing the Boundaries by Glenn Harper
Ain’t Gonna Let Nobody Turn Me Round: Use and Misuse of the Southern Civil Rights Movement by Danny Lyon

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