Capturing the South
Subtitle: Imagining America's Most Documented Region
Publisher: University of North Carolina Press
Published: 2018
Language: eng
Number of pages: 328
ISBN-13: 9781469646442
Subjects: Social sciences, research; Social scientists
Description: "In his expansive history of documentary work in the South during the twentieth-century, Scott L. Matthews examines the motivations and methodologies of several pivotal documentarians, including sociologist Howard Odum, photographers Jack Delano and Danny Lyon, and music ethnographer John Cohen. Their work salvaged and celebrated folk cultures threatened by modernization or strived to reveal and reform problems linked to [the] region's racial caste system and exploitative agricultural economy"--