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Looking and Telling, Again and Again: The Documentary Impulse

Looking and Telling, Again and Again: The Documentary Impulse Essa y .................... Looking and Telling, Again and Again The Documentary Impulse by Tom Rankin Copiah County, Mississippi, 1990, courtesy of the author. 3 n the days immediately following the terror in Charleston, South Carolina, and the murder of nine people attending bible study at the Mother Emanua el ME Church, I was certain I heard a particularly revealing comment on the radio from Reverend  I Norvel Go. R ff everend Goff, presiding elder of the 7th District aME Church in South Carolina, became interim pastor of Eman aME uel after the murder of Reverend Clemente Pinkney. Reverend Go o ff ciated all o ffi f the memo- rial services in the weeks following. I’m convinced I heard him, in an interview with nPr or some other in- d epth radio program, say that he and others at Mother Emanuel were to the point of “thinking in photographs,” having witnessed so many images in the news. Reverend Goff ’s insightful way of talking about the power and primacy of the visual message struck me as even more interesting for the fact that he was so often the one photographed, so often among tho - se rep resented in the http://www.deepdyve.com/assets/images/DeepDyve-Logo-lg.png Southern Cultures University of North Carolina Press

Looking and Telling, Again and Again: The Documentary Impulse

Southern Cultures , Volume 22 (1) – Feb 28, 2016

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Abstract

Essa y .................... Looking and Telling, Again and Again The Documentary Impulse by Tom Rankin Copiah County, Mississippi, 1990, courtesy of the author. 3 n the days immediately following the terror in Charleston, South Carolina, and the murder of nine people attending bible study at the Mother Emanua el ME Church, I was certain I heard a particularly revealing comment on the radio from Reverend  I Norvel Go. R ff everend Goff, presiding elder of the 7th District aME Church in South Carolina, became interim pastor of Eman aME uel after the murder of Reverend Clemente Pinkney. Reverend Go o ff ciated all o ffi f the memo- rial services in the weeks following. I’m convinced I heard him, in an interview with nPr or some other in- d epth radio program, say that he and others at Mother Emanuel were to the point of “thinking in photographs,” having witnessed so many images in the news. Reverend Goff ’s insightful way of talking about the power and primacy of the visual message struck me as even more interesting for the fact that he was so often the one photographed, so often among tho - se rep resented in the

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Southern CulturesUniversity of North Carolina Press

Published: Feb 28, 2016

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