O.N. PRUITT'S POSSUM TOWN; PHOTOGRAPHING TROUBLE & RESILIENCE IN THE AMERICAN SOUTH. Duke University Center for Documentary Studies - Documentary Arts and Culture Series.

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Published by Durham, NC - Chapel Hill, NC: Published in association with the Center for Documentary Studies at Duke University by the University of North Carolina Press [UNC Press], January 2022., 2022

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First edition SIGNED BY THE AUTHOR. xx, 244 pages. Hardcover: H 26.1cm x L 23.4cm. No dust jacket as issued. Dark blue cloth spine with vibrant silver stamping; light bumping to spine ends with slight scuff to heel; paper boards. Author's black ink signature upon the title page; interior leaves are otherwise bright and clean. Binding remains crisp. University of Missouri emeritus associate professor of media history Berkley Hudson reviews the forty-year career of commercial and studio photographer O.N. Pruitt (1891-1967) who documented events and the people - both white and African American - of Columbus (aka "Possum Town"), Mississippi and surrounding Lowndes County. The book features 190 of Pruitt's b/w images selected from the UNC archive collection of some 88,000 negatives. Please note that this book has an approximate shipping weight of 4 pounds (1.81 kg) and may require additional postage for any postal class other than domestic Media Mail. ISBN 9781469662701.

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O.N. PRUITT'S POSSUM TOWN; PHOTOGRAPHING TROUBLE & RESILIENCE IN THE AMERICAN SOUTH. Duke University Center for Documentary Studies - Documentary Arts and Culture Series.
Author
Hudson, Berkley [Fraser Berkley Hudson]. Alexa Dilworth; Wesley Hogan; Tom Rankin (editors). [O.N. Pruitt - Otis Noel Pruitt, 1891-1967.]
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Durham, NC - Chapel Hill, NC: Published in association with the Center for Documentary Studies at Duke University by the University of North Carolina Press [UNC Press], January 2022.
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2022
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