A World Unsuspected: Portraits of Southern Childhood
Harris, Alex (Photographer) Chapel Hill, NC: University of North Carolina Press, 1987. Presumed first edition/first printing. Hardcover. Sewn binding. Paper over boards. xx, [2], 237, [3] p. Illustrations. This was the first title in the Lyndhurst Series on the South. From an on-line posting: "Harris was born in Atlanta, Georgia and grew up in the South. After graduation from Yale in 1971, he photographed North Carolina as part of a Duke University research project. Harris also began...to teach documentary photography at Duke. In 1980 he founded the Center for Documentary Photography at Duke, which he directed for eight years. In 1989, he was a founder of The Center for Documentary Studies at Duke. Between 1995 and 1998 Harris launched DoubleTake Magazine with Robert Coles and coedited the publication through its first twelve issues. He is currently Professor of the Practice of Public Policy and Documentary Studies at Duke. Within the Center for Documentary Studies, he is the Creative Director of the Lewis Hine Documentary Fellows Program." Condition: Very good in very good dust jacket. Price clipped. DJ has slight wear and soiling.
Keywords: Shelia Bosworth, Robb Forman Dew, Barry Hannah, Josephine Humphryes, James Alan McPherson, Bobbie Ann Mason, T. R. Pearson, Padgett Powell, Dave Smith, Ellease Southerland, Al Young
ISBN: 9780807817483
[Book #69710]
Price: $37.50