
One Place
Paul Kwilecki and Four Decades of Photographs from Decatur County, Georgia
Tom Rankin(Author)
The University of North Carolina Press
Published on 30. April 2013
Book
Hardback
272 pages
978-1-4696-0740-5 (ISBN)
Description
Though artistic and ambitious, Paul Kwilecki (1928-2009) chose to remain in Bainbridge, Georgia, the small Decatur County town where he was born, raised, and ran the family's hardware store. He had always been interested in photography and taught himself how to use a camera. Over four decades, he documented life in his community, making hundreds of masterful and intimate black-and-white prints.
Kwilecki developed his visual ideas in series of photographs of high school proms, prison hog killings, shade-tree tobacco farming, factory work, church life, the courthouse. He also wrote eloquently about the people and places he so poignantly depicted, and in this book his unique knowledge is powerfully articulated in more than 200 photographs and selected prose.
Paul Kwilecki worked alone, his correspondence with important photographers his only link to the larger art world. Despite this isolation, Kwilecki's work became widely known. ""Decatur County is home,"" he said, ""and I know it from my special warp, having been both nourished and wounded by it.
Kwilecki developed his visual ideas in series of photographs of high school proms, prison hog killings, shade-tree tobacco farming, factory work, church life, the courthouse. He also wrote eloquently about the people and places he so poignantly depicted, and in this book his unique knowledge is powerfully articulated in more than 200 photographs and selected prose.
Paul Kwilecki worked alone, his correspondence with important photographers his only link to the larger art world. Despite this isolation, Kwilecki's work became widely known. ""Decatur County is home,"" he said, ""and I know it from my special warp, having been both nourished and wounded by it.
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Series
Edition
New edition
Language
English
Place of publication
Chapel Hill
United States
Edition type
New edition
Product notice
sewn/stitched
Cloth over boards
With dust jacket
Dimensions
Height: 262 mm
Width: 269 mm
Thickness: 30 mm
Weight
1837 gr
ISBN-13
978-1-4696-0740-5 (9781469607405)
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Paul Kwilecki is the author of Understandings: Photographs of Decatur County, Georgia..Tom Rankin is the director of the Center for Documentary Studies at Duke University, USA.