Author : Michael Blumensaadt
Publisher : The Institute for Southern Studies
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 94 pages
Book Rating : 4./5 ( download)
Book Synopsis The Southern Ethic by : Michael Blumensaadt
Download or read book The Southern Ethic written by Michael Blumensaadt and published by The Institute for Southern Studies. This book was released on with total page 94 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: What you are holding in your hands (is it a catalogue? Is it a book?) is the final stage of over one and one-half years of thought, planning and work on the part of those of us associated with the Southern Ethic Show. It began as an idea for a small juried show which, with the help of the Georgia Council for the Arts, would open in Atlanta and then travel throughout Georgia and the rest of the South. But in this lush climate things seem to flourish and overgrow their intended boundaries, and somehow a small show of 35 prints juried by three photographers evolved (with the help of the Institute for Southern Studies and the National Endowment for the Arts) into a book of eighty-one photographs juried by 3 photographers,. an anthropologist, a writer, and an archaeologist for the state of Georgia. This catalogue/book in its own way has somehow become more representative of the Southern Ethic Show than the show itself. The jurors and editors all shared a strong interest in the South and in photography, but there was no attempt to select jurors who had the same ideas about either; nor were criteria for selection of photographs discussed in advance. As a measure of the variety of viewpoints and backgrounds of the panel, only two of the photographs (out of 350 submitted) in this book and in the show were selected by unanimous agreement. As the winnowing continued—from 350 photographs to 175 and then to 81—the show began to assume a strength and coherence and direction that transcended the six individuals who had started out directing the process. In the end, the photographs seemed to be dictating their own criteria for selection and sequencing; the editors merely the tools of their persuasion. For a show about the South, it seems fitting.
