June 30, 2007


Eudora Welty, Sunday School, Holiness Church. Jackson 1935-1936

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This extraordinary picture is part of a travelling exhibit presently in Wichita (and headed to Kansas City this November) called “Passionate Observer: Eudora Welty Among Artists of the Thirties.”

More on the exhibit generally here, and one one image in particular here.

posted by John Buaas in aesthetics, culture, fiction, literature, photography, writing 

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2 Responses to “Eudora Welty, Sunday School, Holiness Church. Jackson 1935-1936”

  1. Deron Bauman on June 30th, 2007 at 11:22 am

    god I love that woman.

  2. Daryl Scroggins on June 30th, 2007 at 1:17 pm

    Me too. I have her book of photographs One Time One Place and often show some of the pictures in classes. My admiration for them is similar to my admiration of Walker Evans’s work. I can close my eyes now and see the pictures in Let Us Now Praise Famous Men.