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Introduction
(continued)
The
photographs on this site focus on the interaction between
Southerners and the world around them.
They do this by first preserving the physical
appearance of selected places that Southerners have created
– and continue to create– and by then presenting
photographic versions of those appearances for viewers to look
at and think about. The
images are intended to be as much about the human activities
that have gone into producing the scenes depicted as they are
about the physical appearance of the sites themselves.
At the most basic level, photography can do little more
than record appearances.
Practiced thoughtfully, however, it has the capability
not only to preserve and present the visible appearance of the
world but also to link that appearance to a deeper
understanding of how the world of the present has evolved from
the past. Put
another way, these photographs look at what has happened, and
continues to happen, to make places in the physical world look
the way they do.
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