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O. N. Pruitt's Possum Town: The 'Modest Aspiration and Small Renown' of a Mississippi Photographer, 1915-1960

O. N. Pruitt's Possum Town: The 'Modest Aspiration and Small Renown' of a... e s s a y . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . O. N. Pruitt’s Possum Town The ‘Modest Aspiration and Small Renown’ of a Mississippi Photographer, 1915–1960 by Berkley Hudson O. N. Pruitt (right) with his son Lambuth ( far left) and probably Pruitt’s brother Jim (center). Both Lambuth and Jim worked as photographers — Jim in nearby Starkville, and Lambuth in Jackson, Mississippi, circa 1925. All photographs from the O. N. Pruitt Collection in Wilson Library’s North Carolina Collection at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. 5 SC 13.2-Hudson.indd 52 4/3/07 9:37:54 AM ometime in the 190s, jack-of-all-trades photographer O. N. Pruitt focused his bulky, large format view camera beside a northeast Mississippi lake surrounded with swamp cypress. Draping the camera’s black cloth over his head the better to see the upside down and backwards image that appeared on the ground glass, he clicked the shutter. Black-and-white, nitrate negative film would soon reveal two African American men standing in a wooden boat filled with huge spoonbill catfish. Close by, a white man stands in the water next to another boat http://www.deepdyve.com/assets/images/DeepDyve-Logo-lg.png Southern Cultures University of North Carolina Press

O. N. Pruitt's Possum Town: The 'Modest Aspiration and Small Renown' of a Mississippi Photographer, 1915-1960

Southern Cultures , Volume 13 (2) – Jun 19, 2007

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University of North Carolina Press
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Copyright © 2008 Center for the Study of the American South.
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1534-1488

Abstract

e s s a y . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . O. N. Pruitt’s Possum Town The ‘Modest Aspiration and Small Renown’ of a Mississippi Photographer, 1915–1960 by Berkley Hudson O. N. Pruitt (right) with his son Lambuth ( far left) and probably Pruitt’s brother Jim (center). Both Lambuth and Jim worked as photographers — Jim in nearby Starkville, and Lambuth in Jackson, Mississippi, circa 1925. All photographs from the O. N. Pruitt Collection in Wilson Library’s North Carolina Collection at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. 5 SC 13.2-Hudson.indd 52 4/3/07 9:37:54 AM ometime in the 190s, jack-of-all-trades photographer O. N. Pruitt focused his bulky, large format view camera beside a northeast Mississippi lake surrounded with swamp cypress. Draping the camera’s black cloth over his head the better to see the upside down and backwards image that appeared on the ground glass, he clicked the shutter. Black-and-white, nitrate negative film would soon reveal two African American men standing in a wooden boat filled with huge spoonbill catfish. Close by, a white man stands in the water next to another boat

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Southern CulturesUniversity of North Carolina Press

Published: Jun 19, 2007

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