Cofield Exhibition

Preparing Cofield's Faulkner Photographs: Martha Cofield, widow of photographer Jack Cofield, and Tom Rankin, associate professor of Art and Southern Studies, look over a panel of photographs of William Faulkner from an exhibition that has been in storage since it was shown in Moscow in 1984. The exhibition is being refurbished for a tour celebrating the 100th anniversary of the Nobel Prize-winning author's birth. The exhibition was originally assembled by Patti Carr Black, former director of the Old Capitol Museum in Jackson, and later given to the Center. Assembled before a fire destroyed Cofield's studio and many of the photographer's images and negatives of Faulkner, this exhibit contains prints from negatives that were burned. After opening in July at the Center, the Cofield exhibit will tour. For more information, contact Karen Glynn, assistant director of the Southern Media Archive, at 601-232-7811.