Documentary Photography

This section of the Web site is set aside to showcase special documentary projects at the Center for the Study of Southern Culture, contributed by both students and faculty.

Yoknapatawpha 2008
Mississippi Towns: Batesville, Holly Springs, Water Valley & Pontotoc
Photographs by Southern Studies Documentary Photography Students, 2008
University of Mississippi

Northeast Mississippi Music Documentation Project
The gallery was designed by Addison Hall at Communication Arts Company in Jackson.

With Signs Following . . .
Religion on the Southern Roadside
Photographs by Joe York
Southern Studies Alumnus, MA 2005

Old Ways: Church and Family
Photographs by David Wharton
Director of Documentary Projects and Assistant Professor of Southern Studies

100 Years at Perthshire
A Multimedia Exploration of Life on a Plantation
Using oral histories, films, photographs, letters, legal documents, and maps, One Hundred Years at Perthshire is a multimedia web site that explores the life of this plantation as it underwent the tremendous changes of the twentieth century.

First Monday Sale and Trade Days, Ripley, MS
Photographs by David Wharton
Director of Documentary Projects and Assistant Professor of Southern Studies

Southern Cultural Landscapes
Photographs by David Wharton
Director of Documentary Projects and Assistant Professor of Southern Studies

Yoknapatawpha 2000
The changing face of Lafayette County
Photographs by Southern Studies Documentary Photography Students, 2000
University of Mississippi

Yoknapatawpha 2001
Town & Country
Photographs by Southern Studies Documentary Photography Students, 2001
University of Mississippi

Yoknapatawpha 2002
Of Change and Tradition
Photographs by Southern Studies Documentary Photography Students, 2002
University of Mississippi

Yoknapatawpha 2003
Southerners and Their World
Photographs by Southern Studies Documentary Photography Students, 2003
University of Mississippi