The American south has been seen in an unrealistic way in literature, film, popular music and photography. This images and representations have colonized our collective imagination and given us a different image of the reality of the American south.
In photography, there are two viewes. The first is from the inside of American south with native photographers like Eggleston, William Christenberry and Eudora Welty. The second one is an outsider group. The photographers here are Walker Evans, Carrie Mae Weems, Alec Soth and Susan Lipper. All of these artists, except Welty, are involved in the project Myth, Manners and Memory. This group shows their art in De La Warr Pavilion in Bexhill.
Walkers Evans’ photographs are taken between 1935 and 1938 during the Depression and it shows the poorness and struggle that the people suffered in that time. It changes the image of South America in the world and in the American south itself.
Christenberry and Evans went to Hale County, Alabama and took photographs of that place because it was their muse for them.
Eudora Welty, other photographer, shows a different way of seeing American south. She cares about the artistic and mythical resonance that it is in landscapes, cityscapes, street scene and roadside scenes. She saw this place like a mystic world but this is accepted with familiarity.
Weems is the most political photographer because he portraits the racist history in the American south. He contrasts all the negative ways of racism with the refined social etiquette of the rich plantation families.
As we can see there are many ways to discover the real American South that is full of old and new stories that make this place mysterious and magical but with a social point of view.
In photography, there are two viewes. The first is from the inside of American south with native photographers like Eggleston, William Christenberry and Eudora Welty. The second one is an outsider group. The photographers here are Walker Evans, Carrie Mae Weems, Alec Soth and Susan Lipper. All of these artists, except Welty, are involved in the project Myth, Manners and Memory. This group shows their art in De La Warr Pavilion in Bexhill.
Walkers Evans’ photographs are taken between 1935 and 1938 during the Depression and it shows the poorness and struggle that the people suffered in that time. It changes the image of South America in the world and in the American south itself.
Christenberry and Evans went to Hale County, Alabama and took photographs of that place because it was their muse for them.
Eudora Welty, other photographer, shows a different way of seeing American south. She cares about the artistic and mythical resonance that it is in landscapes, cityscapes, street scene and roadside scenes. She saw this place like a mystic world but this is accepted with familiarity.
Weems is the most political photographer because he portraits the racist history in the American south. He contrasts all the negative ways of racism with the refined social etiquette of the rich plantation families.
As we can see there are many ways to discover the real American South that is full of old and new stories that make this place mysterious and magical but with a social point of view.
I think that putting together things like politcy and photography is a really good way of showing what you think, and make more people to understand you.
ReplyDeletesee you Maite!!