Wounds, Vines, Scratches, and Names: Signs of Return in Southern Photography
...of time means another year’s growth, another layer of knotted branches and complications. A wisp of understanding may be possible here, but not clarity, not order. The UVA Art Museum...
Petrochemical America, Petrochemical Addiction
...to the decimation of Louisiana's cypress forests) to increasingly complex thermo-, hydro-, and catalytic cracking processes. These processes separate oil into its constituent hydrocarbons, which then become a diverse array...
A Review of Lawrence N. Powell's The Accidental City: Improvising New Orleans
...Mardi Gras, New Orleans’s quintessential event, briefly contrasting elite visions of an orderly ritual of power with the cheerful anarchy of carnival in the street. The contrast, he suggests, is...
Opening at the Center for Documentary Studies at Duke University
...in the documentary arts, and ordinarily will hold an academic appointment in the appropriate department in Duke's School of Arts and Sciences. Read more: www.documentarystudies.duke.edu. DEADLINE: September 1, 2012. To...
Scales of Slavery on the Mason-Dixon Line: A Review of Gleanings of Freedom
...wheat production. Unlike tobacco or cotton, wheat required bursts of intense labor at harvest, followed by relative lulls in activity. In order to maximize their investments in year-round, bound labor,...
Funky graffiti art, Memphis, Tennessee, 2008
Trolley station, Memphis, Tennessee, 2005
Hill Brothers Long Log Harvesting
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Burning bright, Tysons Corner, Virginia, 2009
Beale Street at night, Memphis, Tennessee, 2005