Employing perhaps the most uncommon device in contemporary fine art photography – a flat-panel digital imaging x-ray detector – Kent Krugh allows viewers the rare opportunity to peer into the surprising interiors of cameras and the elegant internal structure of birds. Krugh writes that the photographs in “Speciation” “explore the microevolution of cameras” and are […]
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DEVELOPER: Madeline Cass
I had the pleasure of talking to Madeline Cass, an artist who seems almost impossible to characterize given the incredible breadth of her practice. Looking at her work excites me, always instilling within me a sense of wonder, serenity, and connection to the world we are all surrounded by. As social conversations encompass identity, intimacy, […]
Southbound: Photographs of and about the New South, Day 7
On our final day of posts for Southbound: Photographs of and about the New South, we feature a selection of the co-curators Mark Sloan and Mark Long’s essay on emplacing the new south. I think that there is no better text to summarize the exploration of Southern identity and culture that we’ve featured throughout the […]
Southbound: Photographs of and about the New South, Day 6
In addition to an amazing curation of Southern photography and writing, Southbound also features an incredible interactive map depicting concentrations of everything from African Americans to chickens, confederate symbols to field crops, as well as an “Index of Southernness”. This index was created by fusing the other maps presented, showcasing “classic regional geographic patterns of core, […]
Southbound: Photographs of and about the New South, Day 5
We are continuing our feature of images and text from Southbound: Photographs of and about the New South today, with an essay by author, editor, and southern food aficionado John T. Edge. John T. Edge writes about the American South. The Penguin Press published his latest book, The Potlikker Papers: A Food History of the Modern South, named a […]
Southbound: Photographs of and about the New South, Day 4
For the fourth day of our weeklong feature of images and text from Southbound: Photographs of and about the New South, the photographs are accompanied by an essay by historian, author, film-maker, and all around expert on the South, William Ferris. William R. Ferris is a professor of history at UNC–Chapel Hill and an adjunct professor […]