Eggleston's South: "Always in Color"
...the International Center for Photography in New York. The Whitney staged a major retrospective, William Eggleston: Democratic Camera, Photographs and Video, 1961–2008, that traveled to the Cocoran Gallery of Art...
Geography
...of books beneath his arm. It’s 1971, the last year we’re still together. My mother and I travel this road, each week, to meet him— I-10 from Mississippi to New...
Winter steam, Hot Springs, Arkansas, 2002
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Race
...when he traveled without his white wife to visit his siblings — now in New York, now in Harlem, USA — just as pale-skinned, as straight-haired, as blue-eyed as Paul,...
Dirty Little Story
Essay Map of Fish Trap Hollow and northeastern Mississippi, 2012. ©OpenStreetMap contributors, CC-BY-SA. The visitors are from Virginia, a state that simply sounds clean. There are two young children and a...
Beale Street at night, Memphis, Tennessee, 2005
Daily Life, State Power, and Theory in the Lonestar State: A Review of Robert Wuthnow's Rough Country
...the United States: Greetings from "The Lone Star State," a postcard commonly sold in Texas. Courtesy of Virginia Stuart-Taylor, The Well-Travelled Postcard. I'm skeptical of generalizing from Texas to broader...
Winter motel, Pigeon Forge, Tennessee, 2009
Folly Pier, Folly Beach, South Carolina, 2007
Jellyfish at the Georgia Aquarium, Atlanta, Georgia, 2007