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e s s a y . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . O. N. Pruitt’s Possum Town The ‘Modest Aspiration and Small Renown’ of a Mississippi Photographer, 1915–1960 by Berkley Hudson O. N. Pruitt (right) with his son Lambuth ( far left) and probably Pruitt’s brother Jim (center). Both Lambuth and Jim worked as photographers — Jim in nearby Starkville, and Lambuth in Jackson, Mississippi, circa 1925. All photographs from the O. N. Pruitt Collection in Wilson Library’s North Carolina Collection at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. 5 SC 13.2-Hudson.indd 52 4/3/07 9:37:54 AM ometime in the 190s, jack-of-all-trades photographer O. N. Pruitt focused his bulky, large format view camera beside a northeast Mississippi lake surrounded with swamp cypress. Draping the camera’s black cloth over his head the better to see the upside down and backwards image that appeared on the ground glass, he clicked the shutter. Black-and-white, nitrate negative film would soon reveal two African American men standing in a wooden boat filled with huge spoonbill catfish. Close by, a white man stands in the water next to another boat
Southern Cultures – University of North Carolina Press
Published: Jun 19, 2007
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