SOUTH '30s
"As time passes by and you look at portraits, the people come back to you like a silent echo. A photograph is a vestige of a face, a face in transit."
- Henri Cartier-Bresson
"Zora Neale Hurston, Rochelle French, and Gabriel Brown
Eatonville, Florida - 1935 June (Alan Lomax)," 2017
spray paint on slightly separated panes of glass
18"x22"
"Rev. Hayne's Methodist Church
Eatonville, Florida - June 1935 (Alan Lomax)," 2017
spray paint on slightly separated panes of glass
22"x18"
"James Baker (Iron Head), head-and-shoulders portrait, facing right
Sugarland, Texas – June 1934 (Alan Lomax)," 2016
house paint, spray paint, & oil paintstick on mounted birch
36"x24"
"man standing, half-length portrait, facing forward
Eatonville, Florida – 1935 (Alan Lomax)," 2016
house paint & spray paint on mounted birch
36"x24"
"John Bray, half-length portrait, standing with hand on shoulder
Amelia, Louisiana – October 1934 (Alan Lomax)," 2016
house paint & spray paint on mounted birch
36"x24"
"portrait of unidentified black man, wearing cap
between 1934 and 1950 (Alan Lomax)," 2012
acrylic on mounted canvas
16"x11"
"boys at National Rice Festival
Crowley, Louisiana – October 1938 (Russell Lee)," 2012
acrylic on mounted canvas
16"x20"
"Creole girls, Plaquemines Parish
Louisiana – October 1935 (Ben Shahn)," 2012
acrylic on mounted canvas
16"x20"
"farmers siting on bags of rice, state mill
Abbeville, Louisiana – September 1938 (Russell Lee)," 2012
acrylic on mounted canvas
11"x16"