The American South in color

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William Ferris never stops exploring at the American South. Since the 1960s, the folklorist and scholar—Mississippian and now North Carolinian—has used all his senses in documenting this distinct region. He listens for music and stories. He searches the landscape for images.

His book The South in Color: A Visual Journal presents striking color photography, beginning on his family’s farm in the 1960s, and completes an informal trilogy of the region that began with Give My Poor Heart Ease and The Storied South, both of which feature his black-and-white photography.

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This is story number 197 in the Carolina Stories 225th Anniversary Edition magazine.

William Ferris is the Joel R. Williamson Eminent Professor of History and senior associate director of the Center for the Study of the American South in UNC’s College of Arts and Sciences.

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