One Time, One Place by Eudora Welty (November 2017)
A more accurate title for this post would be ‘I looked at the pictures in One Time, One Place so you don’t have to’. This isn't a dismissal of the work - it's a comment on my own shortcomings as it relates to looking at photography.
Welty’s work is a photo album of life in Mississippi during the Great Depression. Though I did find the work interesting at a certain level, I did not find myself moved by these photographs. Photography, I'm afraid, is an artform I'm still learning to appreciate.
Welty introduces the collection with a short essay. Here, she states the insights I’m sure many more capable observed have noted in her photography. The most notable for me was about the economic conditions in the South between world wars. She comments specifically that in Mississippi, the poorest state in the Union, the Great Depression was barely noticed - the poor remained poor and life continued on.
