Segregation's Habits and Horrors: The Photographs of O. N. Pruitt
Review In 1971, a Walker Evans retrospective at the Museum of Modern Art inspired critic Hilton Kramer to reflect on the Evan's enduring influence: "For how many of us, I...
An Unflinching Look: An Interview with Photographer Benjamin Dimmitt
...so many corpses that you can't move freely. Someone who wrote about my project wrote that it reminded him of a Civil War battlefield with corpses everywhere. And this was...
Navigating Jim Crow: A Review of Adolph L. Reed's The South: Jim Crow and Its Afterlives
...indignation." 3Reed, 13. The pervasive but varying conditions of white supremacy meant that the places where Black people could be their own free selves, away from everyday racial dangers and...
Memphis by Hand: Creative Small-Business Advertising
...buildings with hand-stenciled and freehand advertising for local businesses. Such work suggests that small-business advertising can be a collective endeavor, relying on neighborhood talent and artistic vision. About the Photographer...
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Image Credits
...Pietà Revisited, 2014. Mixed-media collage by Jonathan Kent Adams. Freedom?, 2014. Mixed-media collage by Jonathan Kent Adams. Hoosier Hospitality, March 30, 2015. Photograph by Flickr user Mike Licht. Creative Commons...
The State House Aflame 1833
...the purchase of his freedom from John Marlow. The roof, the roof, the roof is on fire, We don't need no water, let the motherfucker burn Published in Blood...
Three AM and the Stars Were Out
...a time, birthing death. Though sometimes it all works out. I turn a calf's head and then like a safe's combination the womb unlocks, calf slides free, or this night...
Off-Season
...for fall. We settled in for the long freeze. You ate ridicule and haste. We never were the same, until spring when the fields reclaimed us as their own and...