The Morris Museum of Art presents Local Color: Photography in the South an exhibition on view through JANUARY 29, 2012.
William Eggleston, Untitled (Coca-Cola sign atop roof). Undated. © Eggleston. Artist Trust. All rights reserved. Courtesy Cheim & Read, New York.
Selected from the Morris Museum of Art’s permanent collection, the exhibition includes work by some of the South’s most important photographers, including Dave Anderson, John Baeder, William Christenberry, William Eggleston, Janos Enyedi, William Greiner, Birney Imes, Greg Kinney, Jim McGuire, and Meryl Truett. With subjects ranging from rural landscapes and near-forgotten small towns to small-town eateries and abandoned cabooses, this exhibition explores and celebrates the region. – www.themorris.org