Gregory Harris, (the Keough Family Curator of Photography at High Museum of Art), Sarah Kennel, (the Aaron Siskind Curator of Photography at Virginia Museum of Fine Arts), artist Carolyn Drake, and artist, filmmaker, writer RaMell Ross held a discussion on the blockbuster exhibition that opened at the High Museum last year, and is currently on view at the Addison Gallery of American Art in Andover, MA. A Long Arc: Photography and the American South since 1845 examines how The South has occupied an uneasy place in the history of photography as both an example of regional exceptionalism and as the crucible from which American identity has been forged. As the first major survey of Southern photography in twenty-five years, this exhibition examines that complicated history and reveals the South's critical impact on the evolution of the medium, posing timely questions about American culture and character.
