SOUTH '30s
"As time passes by and you look at portraits, the people come back to you like a silent echo. A photograph is a vestige of a face, a face in transit."
- Henri Cartier-Bresson
![](img/south/9.jpg)
"Zora Neale Hurston, Rochelle French, and Gabriel Brown
Eatonville, Florida - 1935 June (Alan Lomax)," 2017
spray paint on slightly separated panes of glass
18"x22"
![](img/south/10.jpg)
"Rev. Hayne's Methodist Church
Eatonville, Florida - June 1935 (Alan Lomax)," 2017
spray paint on slightly separated panes of glass
22"x18"
![](img/south/6.jpg)
"James Baker (Iron Head), head-and-shoulders portrait, facing right
Sugarland, Texas – June 1934 (Alan Lomax)," 2016
house paint, spray paint, & oil paintstick on mounted birch
36"x24"
![](img/south/7.jpg)
"man standing, half-length portrait, facing forward
Eatonville, Florida – 1935 (Alan Lomax)," 2016
house paint & spray paint on mounted birch
36"x24"
![](img/south/8.jpg)
"John Bray, half-length portrait, standing with hand on shoulder
Amelia, Louisiana – October 1934 (Alan Lomax)," 2016
house paint & spray paint on mounted birch
36"x24"
![](img/south/2.jpg)
"portrait of unidentified black man, wearing cap
between 1934 and 1950 (Alan Lomax)," 2012
acrylic on mounted canvas
16"x11"
![](img/south/4.jpg)
"boys at National Rice Festival
Crowley, Louisiana – October 1938 (Russell Lee)," 2012
acrylic on mounted canvas
16"x20"
![](img/south/1.jpg)
"Creole girls, Plaquemines Parish
Louisiana – October 1935 (Ben Shahn)," 2012
acrylic on mounted canvas
16"x20"
![](img/south/3.jpg)
"farmers siting on bags of rice, state mill
Abbeville, Louisiana – September 1938 (Russell Lee)," 2012
acrylic on mounted canvas
11"x16"