Paul Kwilecki’s Photos of Decatur County, Ga.

“I am taking my 35mm camera into places around here no cameras have ever gone,” he wrote in one letter to Ansel Adams. “Into shanties, into tawdry, small-town cafes (not the Robert Frank kind, the south-Georgia, bible-belt kind), into kitchens and hallways of farm houses, and there, in the middle of things these people live with, I make their pictures.”