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Southern Spaces
A journal about real and imagined spaces and places of the US South and their global connections

Eggleston's South: "Always in Color"

...aesthetics of advertising. Eggleston met Viva, a Warhol superstar, at his 1976 MOMA exhibition. After they began an affair, Eggleston visited the Factory and met Warhol. Some of his photographs,...

Mississippi: State of Confession

...black folk—above their other concerns." While whites "loved feeling superior to black folk and they loved segregation," he writes, their "churches were unwilling to make sacrifices to preserve segregation. They...

Local Color

...of voice. Often they employed a white male frame narrator whose superiority is not confirmed but instead undermined by his blindness to the complexity of the story within the frame....

Prop Master at Charleston's Gibbes Museum of Art

...scholars examined his biography in order to repudiate the paternalistic ideology of slavery that Sterling Stuckey ironically calls "kindhearted supervision." In its anonymity, Logan's silhouette also suggests the innumerable people...

Letter: Blues

...my mother's copper ramekin, A cigar box to keep your letters in. At least the swirl ceilings are very high, And the Super's rummy, sort of sly. I saw a...

Buckner Gap, North Carolina

...NC, 1995. Photo courtesy of Rob Amberg. Drilling blast holes, Buckner Gap, NC, 1997. Photo courtesy of Rob Amberg. Blast supervisor inspecting recent explosion, Buckner Gap, NC, 1997. Photo courtesy...