All photos © Phyllis B. Dooney | Greenville, Mississippi, 2011–16
Smoke and Magnolia
By Phyllis B. Dooney and Jardine Libaire
Artist: Photographs by Phyllis B. Dooney; Poetry by Jardine Libaire
Project: Gravity Is Stronger Here
Description: A collaboration between photographer Phyllis B. Dooney and poet Jardine Libaire, Gravity Is Stronger Here is about “looking for America in America.” In 2011, Dooney visited Greenville, Mississippi, and began a five-year-long documentary project focused on one dynamic Southern family. The result, which features Libaire’s documentary poems, delivers an intimate look at this family’s complexities, bringing viewers so close they can smell “cigarette smoke, meat cooking in the backyard, and magnolia blooming by the door.”
—Jardine Libaire from Gravity Is Stronger Here
https://www.oxfordamerican.org/item/1269-smoke-magnolia#sigProId9114642a99
This week’s edition of Eyes on the South was guest curated by Alexa Dilworth, publishing and awards director for the Center for Documentary Studies at Duke University. Eyes on the South is founded by Jeff Rich. The weekly series features selections of current work from Southern artists, or artists whose photography concerns the South. To submit your work to the series, This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it..