Tag: Alex Harris

  • Alex Harris: Our Strange New Land – LENSCRATCH

    Alex Harris: Our Strange New Land – LENSCRATCH

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    Alex Harris: Our Strange New Land – LENSCRATCH Alex Harris’ new book, Our Strange New Land (co-edited with Margaret Sartor), looks to reframe the question “How do you tell the story of the American South?” Based in Durham, North Carolina, Harris knows it’s a region with a complicated history; a legacy via LENSCRATCH: http://lenscratch.com/2022/01/alex-harris-our-strange-new-land/ Alex…

  • Finding Truth and Fiction on Film Sets in the South | The New Yorker

    Finding Truth and Fiction on Film Sets in the South | The New Yorker

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    Finding Truth and Fiction on Film Sets in the South Are Alex Harris’s film-set photographs in “Our Strange New Land” documentary-style stills or new and “natural” scenes unto themselves? via The New Yorker: https://www.newyorker.com/culture/photo-booth/finding-truth-and-fiction-on-film-sets-in-the-south From the desk where I write this, in my house in the Cabbagetown neighborhood of downtown Atlanta, I could toss a…