Wednesday, October 31, 2018

"Southbound: Photographs of and about the New South" (Halsey Institute of Contemporary Art / City Gallery, Charleston)

Nearly the first thing I saw upon walking into this exhibition was a graphic, with supporting interactive screen, illustrating and explaining how southernness was being understood - a smart move, highlighting the way these designations are always up for grabs, and that this fluidity is itself a theme across the contemporary photographs gathered for the exhibition. Lots of high quality stuff.

Maude Schuyler Clay - 'Anna, Ishy's Haircut' (2000) 

 Lucinda Bunnen - 'Dixie Dogs' (2014)

Sheila Pree Bright - 'Protesting White Nationalists at the "White Power" March in Stone Mountain Park I' (2016) 

Eliot Dudik - 'Alligator Alley, Oregon Road' (2009) 

Shelby Lee Adams - 'Preacher Dillard' (2012)

Stacy Kranitz - 'Island Road' (2010)

Langdon Clay - 'Horse Tomatoes' (2003)

Anderson Scott - 'Clinton, Georgia' (2007)

Greg Miller - '21st Avenue South' (2008)

Jeff Rich - 'Hartsville Nuclear Plant (Abandoned)' (2013)