Photographs

ISBN: 1496821238

Author: Welty, Eudora

Condition: New

Eudora Weltys Photographs, originally published in 1989, serves as the definitive book of the critically acclaimed writers photographs. Her cameras viewfinder captured deep compassion and her artists sensibilities. Photographs is a deeply felt documentation of 1930s Mississippi taken by a keenly observant photographer who showed the human side of her subjects. Also included in the book are pictures from Weltys travels to New York, New Orleans, South Carolina, Mexico, and Europe in the 1930s, 40s, and 50s.The photographs in this edition are new digital scans of Weltys original negatives and authentic prints, restoring the images to their original glory. It also features sixteen additional images, several of which were selected by Welty for her 1936 photography exhibit in New York City and have never before been reproduced for publication, along with a resonant, new foreword by Pulitzer Prize-winning writer and Mississippi native Natasha Trethewey.