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- Title
Mixed Intentions and Interpretations in Dorthea Lange's Plantation Owner, Mississippi Delta Photographs.
- Authors
Belden-Adams, Kris
- Abstract
The article discusses photographs taken by photographer Dorothea Lange of plantation life in Clarksdale, Mississippi for the U.S. Resettlement Administration. It mentions that the photographs "Plantation Owner. Mississippi Delta, Near Clarksdale, Mississippi" (also called "Plantation Overseer") and "A Plantation Store near Clarksdale, Mississippi" were depictions of the economic conditions of Clarksdale and its cotton plantations. and explores the themes of both exploitation and individualism in the interpretation of the pictures.
- Subjects
CLARKSDALE (Miss.); MISSISSIPPI; LANGE, Dorothea, 1895-1965; PLANTATIONS; MISSISSIPPI in art; PHOTOGRAPHY of Americans; COTTON growing; UNITED States. Resettlement Administration; PLANTATION life; ECONOMIC history
- Publication
Southern Studies: An Interdisciplinary Journal of the South, 2017, Vol 24, Issue 1, p1
- ISSN
0735-8342
- Publication type
Article