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Eugene Richards at the Bronx Documentary Center
Honorary Southern Photographer Eugene Richards has a show of work from his Below the Line: Living Poorin America portfolio up now at the new Bronx Documentary Center through November 6th, 2016. Images...
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William Eggleston in W Magazine
This is definitely the Year of William Eggleston. After the show in London at the National Portrait Gallery, and the feature story in the New York Times, now he is featured in a story in W Magazine,...
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Thomas Sayre at CAM Raleigh
This blog entry is not about Southern photography, specifically (although, unless otherwise specified, the photographs shown here are by Raleigh-based photographer Art Howard) but the subject is so...
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William Christenberry, 1936 - 2016
William Christenberry, distinguished Southern photographer and one of the nation's pioneer artists and fine art photographers, has died at the age of 80. Go here for his obituary from the New York...
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Ruddy Roye is Time Magazine's Instagram Photographer of the Year for 2016
For the second year in a row, Time Magazine's Instagram Photographer of the Year is a photographer who works in the American South. In 2015, the honoree was Stacy Kranitz; this year, its Brooklyn-based...
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Southern Photographers in the News -- Late Fall 2016
Some notes on Southern photographers who have published work recently -- Honorary Southern Photographer Carrie Mae Weems' book Kitchen Table Series (see image above), published in 2016 by...
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Southern Photographers in the Nasher's Southern Accent Show
I have finally gotten to the Southern Accent: Seeking the American South in Contemporary Art show at Duke University's Nasher Museum, up now through January 8th, 2017. Yes, it has been just that kind...
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Catrching Up with Eyes on the South -- Late Fall 2016
Photographers featured since mid-October in Jeff Rich's ongoing feature Eyes on the South, for the Oxford American, include the following:Savannah-based photographerCarson Sanders (see image above),...
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Christmas at Graceland -- December 2016
In the words of Paul Simon, "I have reason to believe we all shall be received in Graceland." Best wishes for a joyous Holiday season to Southern photographers and Southern photography fans...
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Lucinda Devlin at the Weatherspoon Art Museum
Distinguished American Photographer Lucinda Devlin (see image above) has become a Distinguished Southern Photographer in recent years, moving first to Hattesburg, MS, and now to Greensboro, NC.We can...
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The Southern Gallery Opens Two Photography Shows in Charleston
The Southern Gallery, which has been open at 2 Carlson Court, in Charleston, for just over a year, is my kind of gallery. Erin and Justin Nathanson have found a generous, infinitely flexible space...
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Mike Smith and Students, also Joshua Greer, now at the Reese Museum
Mike Smith (see image above), a long-time Johnson City, Tennessee - based photographer and professor in the Department of Art at East Tennessee State University, is retiring this year from his teaching...
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Representing Appalachia at the Tracey Morgan Gallery
The section of the USA we call Appalachia has been the setting for lots of photography over the years. This work has itself proved controversial primarily because of the economic and cultural distance...
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Southern Photographers Recently Featured on AINT-BAD
AIN'T BAD Magazine started in the South, a creation of some enterprising folks who met at the Savannah College of Art and Design (SCAD).Its now branched out to have a world-wide focus in its pursuit of...
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Betty Press is having a wonderful 2017, and its only February
Hattiesburg, MS-based photographer Betty Press (see image above) has had work in shows all over the place in the past few months, while winning prizes and earning well-deserved recognition for her...
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Wisdom for Photographers from Unexpected Sources --"You miss 100% of the shots you don't take." -- Wayne Gretsky Works for ice hockey, and for...
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How to buy fine art photographs in Atlanta
ATLANTA, the city magazine of, well, of course, Atlanta, has this advice for where to go and how to buy fine art photography in the South's major city, and the home of the Atlanta Celebrates...
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Joan Didion on the American South
In the South they are convinced that they are capable of having bloodied their land with history. In the West we lack this conviction -- Joan Didion
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The South on Lenscratch -- The States Project
Aline Smithson and her colleagues at the exceptionally fine Lenscratch blog have continued their exploration of these various (not-so-united, perhaps) United States in the States Project. This project...
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As others see us -- Damon Winter and Laura Caulk in the American South
Documentary photographers from major newspapers have been at work recently in the American South.Their work is now available on line.Pulitzer-Prize winning NY Times photographer Damian Winter (see 3...
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