Hugh Mangum - Where We Find Ourselves: The Photographs of Hugh Mangum, 1897-1922

THE PHOTOGRAPHS OF HUGH MANGUM, 18971922

EDITED BY MARGARET SARTOR AND ALEX HARRIS

FOREWORD BY DEBORAH WILLIS | INTRODUCTION BY MICHAEL LESY

Published by the University of North Carolina Press, Chapel Hill, in association with the Center for Documentary Studies at Duke University

2019 Margaret Sartor and Alex Harris

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Designed by Bonnie Campbell

Set in Legacy Serif and Raleway by Bonnie Campbell

Manufactured in the United States of America

The University of North Carolina Press has been a member of the Green Press Initiative since 2003.

All uncredited photographs are courtesy of the David M. Rubenstein Rare Book & Manuscript Library at Duke University.

Frontispiece and images on p. viii, Self-portraits, Hugh Mangum, ca, 190510.

Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data

Names: Mangum, Hugh, 18771922, photographer. | Sartor, Margaret, editor | Harris, Alex, 1949 editor. | Duke University. Center for Documentary Studies, publisher.

Title: Where we find ourselves : the photographs of Hugh Mangum, 18971922 / edited by Margaret Sartor and Alex Harris; foreword by Deborah Willis; introduction by Michael Lesy.

Other titles: Documentary arts and culture.

Description: Chapel Hill : University of North Carolina Press; [Durham, NC] : in association with the Center for Documentary Studies at Duke University, [2019] | Series: Documentary arts and culture | Includes bibliographical references and index.

Identifiers: LCCN 2018021267 | ISBN 9781469648316 (cloth : alk. paper) | ISBN 9781469648323 (ebook)

Subjects: LCSH: Mangum, Hugh, 18771922. | Southern StatesPictorial works. | LCGFT: Portraits. | Documentary photographs.

Classification: LCC TR680 .M2956 2019 | DDC 779/.2DC23 LC record available at https://lccn.loc.gov/2018021267

Excerpt from James Baldwins Mass Culture and the Creative Artist: Some Personal Notes 1959, in The Cross of Redemption: Uncollected Writings, published by Pantheon/Vintage Books, 2011. Used by arrangement with the James Baldwin Estate.

DOCUMENTARY ARTS AND CULTURE

Edited by Alexa Dilworth, Wesley Hogan, and Tom Rankin of the Center for Documentary Studies at Duke University

In a time when the tools of the documentary arts have become widely accessible, this series of books, published in association with the Center for Documentary Studies at Duke University, explores and develops the practice of documentary expression. Drawing on the perspectives of artists and writers, this series offers new and important ways to think about learning and doing documentary work while also examining the traditions and practice of documentary art through time.

CENTER FOR DOCUMENTARY STUDIES AT DUKE UNIVERSITY

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Published in conjunction with the exhibition Where We Find Ourselves: The Photographs of Hugh Mangum, 18971922, cocurated by Margaret Sartor and Alex Harris and organized by the Nasher Museum of Art at Duke University.

On view January 19May 19, 2019.

This book is dedicated to environmental activists Margaret Nygard and Holger Nygard; photographer David Page; North Carolina genealogist William Perry Johnson; and Hugh Mangums nephew, Jack Vaughan. Without the unified hard work of these far-sighted individualstheir commitment to the value and preservation of Hugh Mangums glass plate negativesthis work would not be available to us.

And to Robert L. Byrd, who made the preservation of visual materials an important mission of the David M. Rubenstein Rare Book & Manuscript Library at Duke University.

I feel very strongly, though, that this amorphous people are in desperate search for something which will help them to re-establish their connection with themselves, and with one another. This can only begin to happen as the truth begins to be told. We are in the middle of an immense metamorphosis here, a metamorphosis which will, it is devoutly to be hoped, rob us of our myths and give us our history, which will destroy our attitudes and give us back our personalities. The mass culture, in the meantime, can only reflect our chaos: and perhaps we had better remember that this chaos contains lifeand a great transforming energy.

JAMES BALDWIN, MASS CULTURE AND THE CREATIVE ARTIST: SOME PERSONAL NOTES, 1959