The South in color
Subtitle: a visual journal
By: William Ferris ; foreword by Tom Rankin
Contributors: Rankin, Tom, writer of foreword
Series: H. Eugene and Lillian Youngs Lehman series; H. Eugene and Lillian Youngs Lehman series
Publisher: The University of North Carolina Press
Published: 2016
Language: eng
Number of pages: 120
ISBN-13: 9781469629681
Subjects: Pictorial works
Description: Since the moment William Ferris's parents gave their twelve-year-old son a Kodak Brownie Hawkeye camera for Christmas in 1954, Ferris passionately began to photograph his world. He has never stopped. The sixties and seventies were a particularly significant period for Ferris as he became a pathbreaking documentarian of the American South. This beautiful, provocative collection of one hundred of Ferris's photographs of the South, taken during this formative period, capture the power of his color photography. Color film, as Ferris points out in the book's introduction, was not commonly used by documentarians during the latter half of the twentieth century, but Ferris found color to work in significant ways in the photographic journals he created of his world in all its permutations and surprises.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (pages 117-120).
Table of contents: title: Photographs: The farm; title: Portraits; title: Buildings; title: Handmade color; title: Roads traveled.