O. N. Pruitt's Possum Town: Photographing Trouble and Resilience in the American South

by Fraser Berkley Hudson

Photographer O. N. Pruitt (1891-1967) was for some forty years the de facto documentarian of Lowndes County, Mississippi, and its county seat, Columbus--known to locals as "Possum Town." His body of work recalls many FSA photographers, but Pruitt was not an outsider with an agenda; he was a community member with intimate knowledge of the town and its residents. He photographed his fellow white citizens and Black ones as well, in circumstances ranging...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1469662701
• ISBN13: 9781469662701
• Release Date: January 2022
• Publisher: University of North Carolina Press
• Length: 272 Pages
• Weight: 3.40 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.0" x 9.2" x 10.3"