ABSTRACT

This study draws on several thousand images submitted by 56 fine art photographers for the largest exhibition of photographs about the American South yet undertaken, Southbound: Photographs of and about the New South, to investigate the cultural landscape of the region in the early twenty-first century. The prevalence of the flags of the Confederacy in cultural landscapes in the South highlights the endurance of longstanding white political identities there. More telling, however, is the understated power of the Stars and Stripes, often so taken for granted as to be almost invisible in photographs of the region. Fine art photographs open a window onto the cultural landscape of the New South that showcases charged political identities in the region while underlining the salience of Americanness there.

摘要

这项研究借鉴了56位美术摄影师提交的数千幅图像，这些图像是有关美国南方尚未拍摄的最大照片展览《南行：新南威尔士州的照片》以及有关新南威尔士州的照片，以调查该地区在二十一世纪初的文化景观世纪。在南部文化景观中，同盟国国旗的盛行凸显了南方长期存在的白人政治身份的耐力。然而，更能说明问题的是星条旗的低调力量，通常被认为是理所当然的，以至于在该地区的照片中几乎看不见。精美的艺术照为新南威尔士州的文化景观打开了一扇窗户，展示了该地区充满政治色彩的政治身份，同时突显了该地区美国人的重要性。