A Powerful Portrait of America as Seen From the Deep South – Feature Shoot

A Powerful Portrait of America as Seen From the Deep South – Feature Shoot

Yolanda Walker at The Purple Bowl, Pink Bottom Alvin G. Stone at His Store, Pine Apple Gene’s Barbershop, Greensboro The story of America is rooted in the South, in the…

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“Alabama, the place in these pages, my home, us not exotic,” writes Imani Perri in the preface to Andrew Moore’s new monograph Blue Alabama (Damiani). “Sometimes Alabama is a punchline, or a word used to provoke horror. I have seen pages of words and pictures filled with my birth state, an abundant canvas for the American imagination, many times—the work of artists and poets, writers and intellectuals. This prolificity is at least in part because Alabama is the imagined grounds for our national shame, a heady mix of poverty and violence: guns, lynching, beatings, and, most of all, racism. Slavery! Alabama might be the true heartland of America after all.”