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Light and Air The Photography of Bayard Wootten (review)

Light and Air The Photography of Bayard Wootten (review) reviews Our regular review section features some of the best new books and films. From time to time, you'll also find reviews of important new museum exhibitions and public history sites, and retrospectives on classic works that continue to shape our understanding of the South and its people. Our aim is to explore the rich diversity of southern life and the approaches of those who study it. In this issue we experience the light and air of Bayard Wootten's photographs, learn "what shoes have to do with shouting all over God's heaven, " and land in William Faulkner's world. Light and Air The Photography of Bayard Wootten By Jerry W. Cotten University of North Carolina Press, 1998 253 pp. Cloth, $37.50 Reviewed by Jessie Poosch, Professor Emerita at Tulane University's Newcomb Art Department, and coauthor with John Cuthbert of David Hunter Strother, "One ofthe Best Draughtsmen the Country Possesses" from West Virginia University Press, 1 997. The North Carolina Collection at the University of North Carolina Library in Chapel Hill owns over 97,000 negatives of photographs taken by the WoottenMoulton Studio, a New Bern-Chapel Hill photographic business in operation from 1 906 until 1954. It also owns 260 http://www.deepdyve.com/assets/images/DeepDyve-Logo-lg.png Southern Cultures University of North Carolina Press

Light and Air The Photography of Bayard Wootten (review)

Southern Cultures , Volume 5 (3) – Jan 4, 1999

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reviews Our regular review section features some of the best new books and films. From time to time, you'll also find reviews of important new museum exhibitions and public history sites, and retrospectives on classic works that continue to shape our understanding of the South and its people. Our aim is to explore the rich diversity of southern life and the approaches of those who study it. In this issue we experience the light and air of Bayard Wootten's photographs, learn "what shoes have to do with shouting all over God's heaven, " and land in William Faulkner's world. Light and Air The Photography of Bayard Wootten By Jerry W. Cotten University of North Carolina Press, 1998 253 pp. Cloth, $37.50 Reviewed by Jessie Poosch, Professor Emerita at Tulane University's Newcomb Art Department, and coauthor with John Cuthbert of David Hunter Strother, "One ofthe Best Draughtsmen the Country Possesses" from West Virginia University Press, 1 997. The North Carolina Collection at the University of North Carolina Library in Chapel Hill owns over 97,000 negatives of photographs taken by the WoottenMoulton Studio, a New Bern-Chapel Hill photographic business in operation from 1 906 until 1954. It also owns 260

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Southern CulturesUniversity of North Carolina Press

Published: Jan 4, 1999

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