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Light and Air : The Photography of Bayard Wootten by Jerry W. Cotten (1998, Hardcover)

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PublisherUniversity of North Carolina Press

ISBN-100807824453

ISBN-139780807824450

eBay Product ID (ePID)962549

Product Key Features

Book TitleLight and Air : the Photography of Bayard Wootten

Number of Pages272 Pages

LanguageEnglish

TopicIndividual Photographers / General, General, History

Publication Year1998

IllustratorYes

GenrePhotography

AuthorJerry W. Cotten

FormatHardcover

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Item Height1 in

Item Weight11 Oz

Item Length10 in

Item Width8 in

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Intended AudienceTrade

LCCN98-003421

ReviewsThis book, with 136 duotones, recovers the images of a little known but highly accomplished regional artist.Women's Art Journal, This meaningful and balanced book brings the work of this photographer to a place it clearly deserves.Choice, This absorbing biography of Wootten, North Carolina s most significant early female photographer, should kindle interest in Wootten s remarkable work. The Picture Professional, Light and Air is a beautiful volume, carefully produced. Well researched and illustrated.Bloomsbury Review, This absorbing biography of Wootten, North Carolina•s most significant early female photographer, should kindle interest in Wootten•s remarkable work.The Picture Professional, Light and Air is a beautiful volume, carefully produced. Well researched and illustrated. Bloomsbury Review, This absorbing biography of Wootten, North Carolina'_¢s most significant early female photographer, should kindle interest in Wootten'_¢s remarkable work. The Picture Professional, This absorbing biography of Wootten, North Carolina s most significant early female photographer, should kindle interest in Wootten s remarkable work.The Picture Professional, This meaningful and balanced book brings the work of this photographer to a place it clearly deserves. Choice, This book, with 136 duotones, recovers the images of a little known but highly accomplished regional artist. Women's Art Journal, This absorbing biography of Wootten, North Carolina's most significant early female photographer, should kindle interest in Wootten's remarkable work.The Picture Professional, This absorbing biography of Wootten, North Carolinaes most significant early female photographer, should kindle interest in Woottenes remarkable work. The Picture Professional, This absorbing biography of Wootten, North Carolina*s most significant early female photographer, should kindle interest in Wootten*s remarkable work. The Picture Professional

Dewey Edition21

Photographed byWootten, Bayard

Dewey Decimal779/.092

Table Of ContentContentsPreface Acknowledgments The Life and Career of Bayard Wootten Plates Bibliography Index Credits

SynopsisA trailblazer for women photographers in the South, North Carolina's Bayard Wootten (1875-1959) overcame economic hardship, gender discrimination, and the obscurity of a small-town upbringing to become the state's 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 photography's 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—includingCabins in the Laurel,Old Homes and Gardens of North Carolina, andCharleston: Azaleas and Old Bricks—lectured extensively, and exhibited her photographs as far away as New York and Massachusetts.Light and Airfeatures 190 illustrations, including 136 duotone reproductions of Wootten's 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 Wootten's 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., A trailblazer for women photographers in the South, North Carolina's Bayard Wootten (1875-1959) overcame economic hardship, gender discrimination, and the obscurity of a small-town upbringing to become the state's 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 photography's 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 Wootten's 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 Wootten's 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., A study of the life and work of Bayard Wootten, one of the South's first female photographers. Features 190 illustrations, many of which are portraits of lower-class black and white Americans, people whom other photographers often ignored.

LC Classification Number98-3421 [TR]