This introductory essay uses William Eggleston as the point of
entry to preview the entire photography issue and includes striking
photographs from Ansel Adams, Walker Evans, Dorothea Lange, and
Susan Harbage Page—as well as exploring the stunning work of
Paul Kwilecki. "Photography in its finest and most decisive moments
is about those tired or ignored or unseen parts of our lives, the
mundane and worn paths that sit before us so firmly that we cease
to notice. It is, we might say, about rebuilding our sight in the
face of blindness, of recovering our collective vision." This
article appears in the Summer 2011 issue of Southern Cultures: The
Photography Issue.
