Photographs Tapa dura - 1989

Jackson, MS: University Press of Mississippi, 1989. Hardcover. VG/VG. Burgundy cloth boards with silver spine lettering, white dust jacket with bw illustration, red spine with white lettering, xxviii, 226 bw plates. Overview: The radiant world of Eudora Welty's art is charged by a poignant and familiar beauty, and here in a stunning book of her photographs is a dazzling record of this writer's unique and special vision. It is unusual-remarkable-for a major writer also to be an accomplished photographer. Eudora Welty is one of the very few whose great talent has been expressed in both photographs and fiction. This book brings together in one volume about 250 representative photographs from the few thousand that she took during the 1930s, '40s, and '50s. Although her camera's view finder compresses much, like the frame in which she conceives her fiction, it finds elements that convey her deep compassion and her artist's sensibilities. From the confines of her native Mississippi these photographs… Leer más

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