tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1553701592418423830.post5592333609549614943..comments2024-03-27T06:20:34.245-04:00Comments on The Southern Photographer: Southern Spaces on the Civil WarJohn N. Wall/Photographerhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/18254481230305150899noreply@blogger.comBlogger1125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1553701592418423830.post-43237393912362307622011-05-19T18:38:31.988-04:002011-05-19T18:38:31.988-04:00I think the Civil War and its affect on the landsc...I think the Civil War and its affect on the landscape is still fused in with Southern culture. One of my photography instructors at school, a fellow North Carolinian, once told me, she always puts "blood in my shadows" in her black-and-white darkroom prints. This became a sort of conceptual underpinning for selenium-toning the shadow-areas in her photographs. <br /><br />And it's true, the pains on ancestry and the landscape ring true. As well as the paranoia and stigma attached to the Civil Rights Movement alluded to in Ayers' article. <br /><br />Other than Sally Mann's "Battlefields" series, another photographer that comes to mind is the work of <a href="http://jessingram.com/home.html" rel="nofollow">Jessica Ingram</a>, who photographs, more or less, contemporary and personal "battlefields" amidst an overarching political statement.<br /><br />Thanks for publishing this blog; I recently encountered it and I've been following it keenly.Aaronhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/17220058511355870603noreply@blogger.com