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Ken Abbott is Having a Wonderful 2016, and Its Only July
Asheville-based photographer Ken Abbottis having an wonderful 2016. First of all, Abbott's book of work made at Hickory Nut Gap Farmin Fairview, NC, in the Blue Ridge Mountains, was published by...
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Southern Photographers in the News, Part 1 -- Summer 2016
Folks, its been a long, hot summer, even for the South. July was supposed to be the hottest month on record, ever. But lots of good things have been happening in Southern photography, more than I can...
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Catching Up with Eyes on the South -- Late Summer, 2016
Photographers featured -- since our last listing -- in Jeff Rich's ongoing Eyes on the South for the Oxford American include the following:1. New Orleans-based photographer Virginia Hanusik(see image...
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Southern Accent Show at Duke's Nasher Museum of Art
Duke's Nasher Museum of Art is about to open a major exhibition of work entitled Southern Accent: Seeking the American South in Contemporary Art.Southern Accent will feature work by 60 artists working...
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Retrospective Shows in Georgia and Mississippi
Fischer Galleries in Jackson, MS had a one-evening show toCelebrate Mississippi Photographers on August 18th, 2016. Mississippi photographers featured in this show included, among others, Jack...
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Southern Photographers on Lenscratch -- Mid-Summer 2016
Lenscratch's Aline Smithson enjoyed her interview withAlexa Dilworth, Publishing and Awards Director/Editor for CDS Books at Duke's Center For Documentary Studies a few years ago that she ran it again...
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Southern Photographers in the News -- Mid-Summer 2016
Memphis-based photographer Tommy Kha (see image above) received one of this year's En Foco Fellowships in photography, go here. Atlanta-based photographer Sheila Pree Bright (see image above) has work...
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Sally Mann at the Gagosian Gallery
Distinguished Southern Photographer Sally Mannis about to have a show of new work at the Gagosian Gallery in NYC, opening September 22nd and up through October 29th, 2016.This show features images from...
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Photography Festivals in the South -- Fall 2016
Cooler nights and the first glimpses of autumn color in the leaves remind us that the fall photography festivals across the South are about to begin.Leading off, of course, is the most Southern of...
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Brett Abbott Leaving High, Headed to Texas
Brett Abbott, until recently the Donald and Marilyn Keough Family Curator of Photography and Head of Collections at the High Museum of Art in Atlanta, has announced his resignation. Abbott will move to...
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Cade Martin Photographs William Eggleston
Cade Martin is not a Southern photographer, but he was recently in Memphis and made this beautifully seen and truly splendid portrait of legendary Southern photographer William Eggleston.Here's the...
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Stacy Kranitz is having a wonderful 2016, and its only September
Stacy Kranitz (see images above and below) has a new book of work made in the Appalachians now out from HERE Press, go here.The book is entitled Speak your Piece, and contains work Kranitz has made...
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Copyright and the Southern Photographer
The Southern Photographer (who made the image above) sincerely believes in copyright, and all its protections. The Southern Photographer believes that one owns one's images, and that they are...
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Contest for Southern Photographers
This news from Abbie Culbertson, from the Insight Counseling Centers, in Nashville, Tennessee:The goals of the Insight Centers are toProvide excellent professionally licensed psychotherapy to any...
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Photography Festivals in the American South, Mid-Fall 2016
The days are getting shorter , the weather is getting cooler, and across the South we are gearing up for the second round of fall photography festivals.FotoWeekDC is only a few weeks away, now,...
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SxSE Celebrates the First Five Years -- UPDATED
Congratulations to Nancy McCrary and all the fine folks at SxSE Photomagazine for reaching a significant milestone in the history of this outstanding contribution to the world of Southern photography....
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William Eggleston in the New York Times
The print edition of the New York Times for Sunday, October 23rd, 2016,includes in T, the NY Times Style Magazine, a feature on Distinguished Southern Photographer William Eggleston.Eggleston is...
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Nancy McCrary on Jessica Hines, and on Conventions in Southern Photography
Nancy McCrary, the long-time editor of the estimable SxSE Photomagazine, draws on her experience in a recent post to the online version of Don't Take Pictures. The subject of this feature is...
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Memory and (Southern) Photography
Since memory is an important part of Southern culture and cultural identity, the recent essay by Teju Cole in the New York Times, entitled "Memories of Things Unseen," might be of interest to some of...
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Eyes on the South -- Catching Up
Photographers featured since mid-August in Jeff Rich's ongoing feature Eyes on the South, for the Oxford American, include the following: Mississippi-based photographer Ashley Coleman (see image...
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