A social documentary photographer whose work has appeared in books, magazines, and countless exhibitions presents a photographic journey through the poorest communities of the Mississippi Delta. More than 100 duotone photos capture the legacy of sharecroppers, racism, and poverty in the Deep South--a land where time has brought little change.
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Light's duotones of Mississippi provides a strong blend of artistic talent and documentary photography, depicting black cotton workers and field laborers' homes in the rural Delta region. The ultimate result is to portray how little the poverty of the region has changed in the past three decades: his works are gripping, indeed. -- Midwest Book Review
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Ken Light is a social documentary photographer whose work has appeared in books, magazines, on-line media and exhibitions. A new book Coal Hollow was published in 2006 by The University of California Press. His book Witness In Our Time; Working Lives of Documentary Photographers a text was published by the Smithsonian Institution Press in October 2000/2010. His photo book TEXAS DEATH ROW University Press of Mississippi was published in the Fall of 1997. TEXAS DEATH ROW is a look at life inside the death house as the condemned wait to be executed in Americas largest and most active Death Row. This work was published in Newsweek Magazine (6 pgs) , Paris Match (France-8 pgs.), Tempo (Germany-6pgs), London Telegraph, Nieuwe Revu (Amsterdam-6 pgs) and in Japan and Korea, Holland, Denmark, Mexico, Spain, Italy as well as on MSNBC on line , 60 Minutes and numerous documentary films
He is also the author of DELTA TIME published in 1995 by the Smithsonian Institution Press. This book looks at rural Black poverty, cotton, and the southern landscape and has 104 photographs and an essay by legendary civil rights organizer Bob Moses. This work has been published in VSD in Paris, Granta, the London Independent, Spanish Elle with Walker Evans and in the Academy Award nominated documentary film Freedom on My Mind. His other books are TO THE PROMISED LAND (Aperture 1988) WITH THESE HANDS (Pilgrim Press 1986) and IN THE FIELDS (Harvest Press 1982) which examine the lives of farm workers and their journey from Mexico illegally to the United States.
He has exhibited internationally in over 180 one-person and group shows including at the International Center of Photography and is the collection of numerous collections including the San Francisco MOMA, the Houston Museum of Fine Arts, the International Center of Photography and the American Museum of Art at the Smithsonian. He has received four National Endowment for the Arts grants including two Photographers Fellowships, the Dorothea Lange Fellowship and a fellowship from the Erna and Victor Hasselblad Foundation. Other awards include the Media Alliance Meritorious Achievement award in photography, the Thomas More Storke International Journalism Award and Judges Special Recognition (Cannon Photo Essayist) in the University of Missouri/NPPA Pictures of the Year competition.
He is an adjunct professor and director of the Center for Photography at the Graduate School of Journalism at the University of California Berkeley. He has taught workshops at the ICP in New York City, The Missouri Workshop, Anderson Ranch, the S.F. Art Institute and the School for Photographic Studies in Prague. He was a founder of the International Fund for Documentary Photography which awarded grants to photographers and fotovision.org a documentary studies workshop based In San Francisco, California.
He is also the author of DELTA TIME published in 1995 by the Smithsonian Institution Press. This book looks at rural Black poverty, cotton, and the southern landscape and has 104 photographs and an essay by legendary civil rights organizer Bob Moses. This work has been published in VSD in Paris, Granta, the London Independent, Spanish Elle with Walker Evans and in the Academy Award nominated documentary film Freedom on My Mind. His other books are TO THE PROMISED LAND (Aperture 1988) WITH THESE HANDS (Pilgrim Press 1986) and IN THE FIELDS (Harvest Press 1982) which examine the lives of farm workers and their journey from Mexico illegally to the United States.
He has exhibited internationally in over 180 one-person and group shows including at the International Center of Photography and is the collection of numerous collections including the San Francisco MOMA, the Houston Museum of Fine Arts, the International Center of Photography and the American Museum of Art at the Smithsonian. He has received four National Endowment for the Arts grants including two Photographers Fellowships, the Dorothea Lange Fellowship and a fellowship from the Erna and Victor Hasselblad Foundation. Other awards include the Media Alliance Meritorious Achievement award in photography, the Thomas More Storke International Journalism Award and Judges Special Recognition (Cannon Photo Essayist) in the University of Missouri/NPPA Pictures of the Year competition.
He is an adjunct professor and director of the Center for Photography at the Graduate School of Journalism at the University of California Berkeley. He has taught workshops at the ICP in New York City, The Missouri Workshop, Anderson Ranch, the S.F. Art Institute and the School for Photographic Studies in Prague. He was a founder of the International Fund for Documentary Photography which awarded grants to photographers and fotovision.org a documentary studies workshop based In San Francisco, California.
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Amazing,
By "advenire" (Los Angeles, CA United States) - See all my reviews
This review is from: DELTA TIME PB (Paperback)
This is a must own. The photographs are beautiful but what makes this book so powerful is that the people of the Delta are living in the '90's just as they did in the 'teens. For all of the positive changes that have happen since the civil rights movement it obvious that these people have been left behind. The photos will bring tears to your eyes. I would suggest to those people who churches may not be doing that 'Trip to the Holy Land with Pastor so and so' Think about organizing with Habitat for Humanity and doing some building in the Delta.
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Anyone who ever photographed dark-skinned subjects will admire how good Ken Light handles a camera. As good as the photography is, it is shocking to see this level of poverty in America. But Light's subjects are presented with dignity and beauty. The tension in the subject's inner strength and their awful surroundings is memorable.
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Emotional and Memorable Images,
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This book, as stated in the other reviews, is a fantastic collection of 7" x 7" photographs that covers a cultural community in Mississippi that few in America know exists. Ken Light takes the viewer of the book inside this community in a way that is both artistic and informative, and conveys so clearly the daily lives and conditions of the residents of the Delta. Some images are heart-wrenching.
My favorite value of this book is to show it to both friends and neighbors, all who have been impressed with the images, and emotional from them as well. Everyone says something like, "I didn't know..." after they view it. If you are looking for an excellent example of American social doc photography, this is it.
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