The University of Mississippi Museum is displaying an exhibit, “Faulkner’s Geographies: A Photographic Journey” for the 49th anniversary of William Faulkner’s death.
The exhibit is coincided with the 38th Annual Faulkner and Yoknapatawpha Conference which displays images from the Archives and Special Collections at UM libraries and museum.
Thirty-six digitally reproduced images from the 1930s through the 1960s with and without Faulkner provide a visual corollary to the conference.
The University Museum describes the images as ‘filling in gaps of wonder and speculation about Faulkner’s intimate world.’
Photographers; Cofield, Dain, Kerr, Mullen, and Cartier-Bresson bring to light images of Faulkner in society and images without Faulkner that don’t have much information provided.
A number of images show a trip Faulkner took to Nagano, Japan in the 1950s. He posed in fields, with women and children, and attended lectures with university professors.
Henri Cartier-Bresson captured Faulkner at his home, Rowan Oak, in a 1947 image. Images of Faulkner included him as an average man with his daughter, in Shiloh, and on his horse.
Also, included in the exhibit are images with missing information and more thoughts. This contributes to the Photographic Journey where as images with Faulkner and his travels are the Faulkner’s Geographies.
The images without Faulkner leave the audience with more open minds and questions like, “Where are these places?” “Who are these people?” and “What happened here?”
Junior Chris Hardy found the exhibit to be interesting and a bit of an expansion of Faulkner’s reputation.
“It’s really neat because you hear of Faulkner, but you actually get to see him with this,” he said.
http://museum.olemiss.edu/2011/05/faulkners-geographies/
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