Southbound
Subtitle: photographs of and about the New South : a project of the Halsey Institute of Contemporary Art
By: [edited and with an introduction by] Mark Sloan and Mark Long ; with contributions by Nikky Finney, Eleanor Heartney, William Ferris, John T. Edge, and Rick Bunch ; featured artists Shelby Lee Adams [and 55 others]
Contributors: Halsey Institute of Contemporary Art; City Gallery at Waterfront Park (Charleston, S.C.); Gregg Museum of Art & Design; Duke University. Power Plant Gallery; Louisiana State University (Baton Rouge, La.). Museum of Art
Publisher: Halsey Institute of Contemporary Art, College of Charleston
Published: 2018
Place of publication: Charleston, South Carolina
Language: eng
Number of pages: 382
ISBN-13: 9781532350535
Copyright date: 2018
Subjects: Exhibitions; Pictorial works; In art; Civilization; Artistic Photography; Documentary photography; Halsey Institute of Contemporary Art; City Gallery at Waterfront Park (Charleston, S.C.)
Description: "'Southbound: Photographs of and about the New South' comprises fifty-six photographers' visions of the South over the first decades of the twenty-first century. Accordingly, it offers a composite image of the region. The photographs echo stories told about the  South as a bastion of tradition, of a region remade through Americanization and globalization, and as a land full of surprising realities. The project's purpose is to investigate the senses of place in the South that congeal, however fleetingly, in the spaces between the photographers' looking, their images, and our own preexisting ideas about the region. Recognizing the complexity of understanding any place, let alone one as charged as the American South, the curators' approach is transdisciplinay. Southbound embraces the conundrum of its name. To be southbound is to journey to a place in flux, radically transformed over recent decades, yet also to the place where the past resonates most insistently in the United States. To be southbound is also to confront the weight of preconceived notions about this place, thick with stereotypes, encoded in the artistic, literary, and media records. Southbound engages with and unsettles assumed narratives about this contested region by providing fresh perspectives for understanding the complex admixture of history, geography, and culture that constitute today's New South. The history of the American South is among the most storied of any region in the world. As a result of the vitality of its culture and the diversity of its inhabitants--to say nothing about the salience of photography in the United States--the region has also come to be among the most photographed. Southbound charts new courses toward expanded imaginings for the twenty-first century South."
Notes: Published in conjunction with the exhibition Southbound: photographs of and about the New South held at Halsey Institute of Contemporary Art, College of Charleston, Charleston, South Carolina, October 19, 2018-March 2, 2019 and at the City Gallery at Waterfront Park, Charleston, South Carolina, October 19, 2018-March 2, 2019 and four other venues in the South.

Includes bibliographical references.

"Southbound: Photographs Of and About the New South" : October 19, 2018-March 2, 2019, Halsey Institute of Contemporary Art, College of Charleston, Charleston, South Carolina, United States.

"Southbound: Photographs Of and About the New South" : October 19, 2018-March 2, 2019, City Gallery at Waterfront Park, Charleston, South Carolina, United States.

"Southbound: Photographs Of and About the New South" : September 5-December 29, 2019, Gregg Museum of Art & Design, NC State University, Raleigh, North Carolina, United States.

"Southbound: Photographs Of and About the New South" : Power Plant Gallery, Duke University, Durham, North Carolina, United States.

"Southbound: Photographs Of and About the New South" : Hunter Museum of American Art, Chattanooga, Tennessee, United States.

"Southbound: Photographs Of and About the New South" : LSU Museum of Art, Louisiana State University, Baton Rouge, Louisiana, United States.

Text in English.
Table of contents: title: Seeing the New South: introduction / by curators Mark Sloan and Mark Long; title: Ekphrastic poems / by Nikky Finney; title: Photography, poetry, and truth / by Eleanor Heartney; title: Portfolio; title: Visions and voices in the American South / by William Ferris; title: Cloaking and costuming the south / by John T. Edge; title: Mapping the new south / by Rick Bunch and Mark Long; title: Contributor biographies.