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New foreword copyright 2019 by Natasha Trethewey
Original foreword copyright 1989 by Reynolds Price
Introduction copyright 1989
by the University Press of Mississippi
Photographs copyright 1989 by Eudora Welty,
reprinted by permission of Eudora Welty LLC
All rights reserved
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The University Press of Mississippi thanks the Mississippi Department of Archives and History, Archives and Records Services Division, for permitting the reproduction of the photographs selected from its Eudora Welty Collection for publication in this book.
Original design by Richard Hendel
Design of updated and expanded edition by Todd Lape
Frontispiece: Cemetery site / Rodney / 1940s
First printing of updated and expanded edition 2019
Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data
Names: Welty, Eudora, 19092001, photographer. | Trethewey, Natasha D., 1966 author of foreword. | Price, Reynolds, 19332011, author of foreword.
Title: Eudora Welty : photographs / new foreword by Natasha Trethewey ; foreword by Reynolds Price.
Description: Updated and expanded | Jackson : University Press of Mississippi, [2019] |
Identifiers: LCCN 2018043107 (print) | LCCN 2018044905 (ebook) | ISBN 9781496823922 (epub single) | ISBN 9781496823915 (epub institutional) | ISBN 9781496823939 ( pdf single) | ISBN 9781496823946 (pdf institutional) | ISBN 9781496821232 (hardcover : alk. paper)
Subjects: LCSH: Photography, Artistic. | MississippiPictorial works. | LCGFT: Illustrated works.
Classification: LCC TR654 (ebook) | LCC TR654 .W422 2019 (print) | DDC 770.92dc23
LC record available at https://lccn.loc.gov/2018043107
British Library Cataloging-in-Publication Data available
CONTENTS
Natasha Trethewey
Reynolds Price
I would like to acknowledge and express deep indebtedness to the Mississippi Department of Archives and History for their preservation of and care for the photographs and negatives deposited in their possession. For their generosity and unstinting aid to the editors in the making of this book, I thank on my own account Mr. Elbert R. Hilliard, Director, Mr. Hank T. Holmes, Director of the Library Division, and Ms. Patricia Carr Black, Director of the Mississippi Historical Museum. My particular gratitude goes to Dr. Suzanne Marrs, who while Welty Scholar-in-Residence at the Archives identified, organized, and filed all the existing prints and negatives in this collection, from which most of the contents of this book are drawn. And I express again my deep and ongoing gratitude to Ms. Charlotte Capers, former Director of the Archives, who conceived the collection and first installed it, and to whom the initial book of my photographs, One Time, One Place(Random House, 1971), was appropriately dedicated.
Eudora Welty
May 1989
First and foremost, I wish to acknowledge Eudora Welty, my aunt, whose observant eye knew the exact moment to click the shutter and capture a moment in time.
My deep appreciation goes to Craig Gill, Emily Bandy, Todd Lape, Valerie Jones, and Steve Yates at the University Press of Mississippi for recognizing the interest in an updated and expanded edition of Photographs, with additional images, and for providing guidance along the way.
This book would not have been possible without the valuable work of the Mississippi Department of Archives and History under the leadership of Katie Blount.