Juke Joint: Photographs

by Birney Imes

Book Overview

In this famed collection of full-color photographs, Birney Imes reveals a previously unexplored and now nearly vanished domain, the Black juke joints of the Mississippi Delta. Imes's work transforms these common gathering places in Delta cultural life into something rich and strange.

The evocative Mississippi place names in Imes's photographs are as captivating as the names of the juke joints themselves: the Pink Pony in Darling, the People's...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1617036927
• ISBN13: 9781617036927
• Release Date: October 2012
• Publisher: University Press of Mississippi
• Length: 124 Pages
• Weight: 3.01 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.7" x 11.3" x 10.3"