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Eudora Welty: Photographs of the 30s and 40s During the 1930s, in her spare time as a junior publicist for the WPA, Eudora Welty captured rural Mississippi with her camera. Her images convey an honest curiosity toward people affected by their Southern surroundings during the Depression, and an engaging interest in the people and places that would later flourish in her stories. The Pulitzer Prize-winning author would later write, “Making pictures of people in all sorts of situations, I learned that every feeling waits upon its gesture; and I had to be prepared to recognize this moment when I saw it.” Welty’s photographs have been exhibited in the Smithsonian, the National Museum of Women in the Arts, the Museum of the City of New York, and now in the Grubbs Gallery in the Reed Campus Center. In conjunction with the Photographers’ Lecture Series, a selection of Welty’s silver gelatin prints were on view this spring, loaned from the collections of John and Melody Maxey and Barry Moser and Emily Crowe. Ephemera and audio narratives of people who met the author reounded out the exhibition, including a story by illustrator and former faculty member Barry Moser.
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