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Capturing the South : Imagining America's Most Documented Region
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ISBN: 1469646471 1469646463 9781469646466 9781469646473 9781469646442 1469646447 9781469646459 1469646455 9798890842459 9798890842442 Year: 2018 Publisher: [Chapel Hill, North Carolina] : Baltimore, Md. : Published by the University of North Carolina Press, Chapel Hill, in association with the Center for Documentary Studies at Duke University, Project MUSE,

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"In his expansive history of documentary work in the South during the twentieth-century, Scott L. Matthews examines the motivations and methodologies of several pivotal documentarians, including sociologist Howard Odum, photographers Jack Delano and Danny Lyon, and music ethnographer John Cohen. Their work salvaged and celebrated folk cultures threatened by modernization or strived to reveal and reform problems linked to [the] region's racial caste system and exploitative agricultural economy"--

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