Something about the way the South looks has long fascinated outsiders and southerners alike. It seems to invite the stunning cover of William Eggleston's The Beautiful Mysterious, which is a blue-tinged, illuminated, nearly empty, parking lot. Another example: the “rust aesthetic” associated with the banged-up signs so common in William Christenberry's photographs seems like an authentic southern thing. In fact, a certain orange-brown, rustlike color permeates many of the photographs in The Beautiful Mysterious. A more shocking visual signifier of southernness has historically been the lynched black body, as, for example, that of Emmett Till in 1955. As it turns out, Eggleston (b. 1939) grew up in Sumner, MS where the murderers of the Chicago teenager were put on trial – and acquitted.

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走向视觉民主：威廉·埃格尔斯顿和南方摄影的成就

关于南方的方式看起来长期以来一直令外人和南方人着迷。它似乎邀请了威廉·埃格斯顿的惊人封面美丽的神秘，这是一个带蓝色的、灯火通明的、几乎空无一人的停车场。另一个例子：William Christenberry 的照片中如此常见的与撞色标志相关的“铁锈美学”似乎是真正的南方事物。事实上，某种橙褐色、锈迹斑斑的颜色渗透在许多照片中。美丽的神秘. 历史上，一个更令人震惊的南方性视觉标志是被私刑处死的黑体，例如，1955 年的 Emmett Till。事实证明，Eggleston（生于 1939 年）在密西西比州萨姆纳长大，芝加哥的凶手在那里少年受到审判 - 并被无罪释放。