Bibliograph

One place, Paul Kwilecki and four decades of photographs from Decatur County, Georgia, photographs and text by Paul Kwilecki ; edited and with an introduction by Tom Rankin ; coedited by Iris Tillman Hill

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One place, Paul Kwilecki and four decades of photographs from Decatur County, Georgia, photographs and text by Paul Kwilecki ; edited and with an introduction by Tom Rankin ; coedited by Iris Tillman Hill

Language

eng

Bibliography note

Includes bibliographical references

resource.governmentPublication

government publication of a state province territory dependency etc

Illustrations

illustrations

Index

no index present

Literary Form

non fiction

Main title

One place

Nature of contents

bibliography

Oclc number

820349328

Responsibility statement

photographs and text by Paul Kwilecki ; edited and with an introduction by Tom Rankin ; coedited by Iris Tillman Hill

Series statement

Documentary arts and culture

Sub title

Paul Kwilecki and four decades of photographs from Decatur County, Georgia

Summary

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

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