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© Sean Crutchfield

August 06, 2019

Traces of the Past

By Sean Crutchfield

Artist: Sean Crutchfield

Project: Palimpsests

Description In his series Palimpsests, film photographer Sean Crutchfield documents the places “where the past and present collide” in small-town Alabama, Georgia, and Florida. Based on the idea that “the South is a place where traces of the past remain even as the people, structures, and environments around us weather and change,” Crutchfield’s ongoing project captures in soft focus and a faded color palette spaces and structures worn away by sunshine and the passage of time.

 

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    Blakely, Georgia

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    Blakely, Georgia

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    Blakely, Georgia

  • Click to enlarge image Crutchfield_04-Slocomb,Al.jpg

    Slocomb, Alabama

  • Click to enlarge image Crutchfield_05-Graceville,Fl.jpg

    Graceville, Florida

  • Click to enlarge image Crutchfield_06-Geneva,Al.jpg

    Geneva, Alabama

  • Click to enlarge image Crutchfield_08-Florala,Al.jpg

    Florala, Alabama

  • Click to enlarge image Crutchfield_11-Lockhart,Al.jpg

    Lockhart, Alabama

  • Click to enlarge image Crutchfield_13-Ponce-De-Leon,Fl.jpg

    Ponce de Leon, Florida

  • Click to enlarge image Crutchfield_14-Pike-County,Al.jpg

    Pike County, Alabama

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    Dothan, Alabama

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    Dothan, Alabama

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    Malone, Florida

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    Fort Gaines, Florida

  • Click to enlarge image Crutchfield_21-Clio,Al.jpg

    Clio, Alabama

  • Click to enlarge image Crutchfield_23-Barbour-county,Al.jpg

    Barbour County, Alabama

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    Dothan, Alabama

  • Click to enlarge image Crutchfield_26-Columbia,Al.jpg

    Columbia, Alabama

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    Columbia, Alabama

  • Click to enlarge image Crutchfield_29-Eufaula,Al.jpg

    Eufaula, Alabama

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View the embedded image gallery online at:
https://www.oxfordamerican.org/item/1796-traces-of-the-past#sigProId2e16fa9d2f

Eyes on the South&\#xA0;is curated by&\#xA0;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, email Jeff.





Sean Crutchfield

Sean Crutchfield is a film photographer and native of the Florida panhandle with an affinity for the people, landscapes, and vernacular architecture of the American South. He can be found driving around the Florida, Georgia, and Alabama tri-state area looking for images to share on his Instagram account, @the_grain_silo, and his website, crutchphoto.com. In Late June and September of 2020, Sean will have an exhibit of his work at the Wiregrass Museum of Art in Dothan, Alabama.

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