Description: Light and Air : The Photography of Bayard Wootten, Paperback by Cotten, Jerry W.; Fletcher, Stephen J. (FRW), ISBN 1469632489, ISBN-13 9781469632483, Like New Used, Free shipping in the US A trailblazer for women photographers in the South, North Carolinas Bayard Wootten (1) overcame economic hardship, gender discrimination, and the obscurity of a small-town upbringing to become the states most significant early female photographer. This advocate of equality for women combined an artistic vision of photography with determination and a love of adventure to forge a distinguished career spanning half a century.
Originally trained as an artist, Wootten worked in photographys pictorial tradition, emphasizing artistic effect in her images at a time when realistic and documentary photography increasingly dominated the medium. Traveling throughout North Carolina and surrounding states, she turned the artistry of her eye and lens on the people and places she encountered.
Having opened a studio in her hometown of New Bern in 1905, Wootten moved to Chapel Hill in 1928, where her clients included the University of North Carolina. Between 1932 and 1941, she also provided photographs for six books--including Cabins in the Laurel, Old Homes and Gardens of North Carolina, and Charleston: Azaleas and Old Bricks--lectured extensively, and exhibited her photographs as far away as New York and Massachusetts.
Light and Air features 190 illustrations, including 136 duotone reproductions of Woottens photographs taken in North Carolina, South Carolina, Alabama, and Tennessee--many of which have never before been published. Though she was an accomplished landscape and architectural photographer, some of Woottens most notable images were the portraits she crafted of black and white Americans in the lower reaches of society, working people whom other photographers often ignored. These images are perhaps her most enduring legacy.
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Book Title: Light and Air : the Photography of Bayard Wootten
Number of Pages: 272 Pages
Language: English
Publisher: University of North Carolina Press
Publication Year: 2017
Item Height: 1 in
Topic: Individual Photographers / General, General, History
Illustrator: Yes
Genre: Photography
Item Weight: 1 Oz
Item Length: 10 in
Author: Jerry W. Cotten
Item Width: 8 in
Format: Trade Paperback
