Doy Gortons White South 1969-70 with Jane Adams is a handsomely printed limitededition casebound photobook that documents and serves as a virtual textbook of thelook, feel and frenzy of the white society and institutions in the American south as thecivil rights enactments and its movements earlier in the decade began to truly take holdin life as lived in the south. The photographs arose from a year-long project Doy Gortonundertook in 1969-1970. A young but seasoned documentary photographer at the timehe obtained a grant and traveled around the south seeking to understand or at least tosee white people and society through a camera lens. As a white southerner who hadstood with the leaders and workers in civil rights for several years he wanted to go outwith his camera to see what his fellow white southerners were up to as the timeschanged. From prisons, state houses, clan rallies, George Wallace campaign stops tobus stops, drag races, and everyday street scenes Gorton meticulously and brilliantobserved what was going down. With his Leica camera, Tri-X film and a keen eye hecreated an archive of hundreds of photographs. 101 of these photographs are nowpublished here for the first time. Clearly the images he captured then have tremendousrelevance for us in the here and now. As W. Ralph Eubanks wrote in his recent featurearticle on the book. The photographs in White South evoke realities of the present byexposing pieces of the past. Gorton is asked frequently in academic circles andelsewhere to share his photographs and lecture on and share lessons from those daysand this archive of photographs. With over a dozen essays and outstandingethnographic, social and documentary photographic analyses and writing the bookserves as a powerful textbook on one of the most significant places, times and socialtransformations in American history.
Doy Gortons White South 1969-1970 with Jane Adams is a casebound documentaryfine art photobook with 101 photographs of scenes, people and places in thesoutheastern United States during 1969 and 1970. The photographs are accompaniedby more than a dozen essays, analyses and writings that shed light on the codes,mores and other elements of the white south at that time as they are revealed in thephotographs.
