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Summary: The Most Southern Place on Earth...
Review: ... to borrow a book title from a few years back, is what Maude Schuyler Clay captures for the reader in this lovely work. The Delta is also the most un-suburban place in America. Many artists (including other photographers) have tackled the subject before. However, I know of no one who has transmitted the visual essence -- at once quiet and powerful -- of what this place is quite like native daughter Clay: she has given us a glimpse into the other-worldliness of her home. While distinct qualities of American regional identity fade elsewhere, the Mississippi Delta remains our wild country, where the land and its knowing tenants make no mistake that they are in an untamed place of severe beauty, devoid of sentimentality. The photographer from Sumner has gotten all of this right.
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Summary: The Most Southern Place on Earth...
Review: ... to borrow a book title from a few years back, is what Maude Schuyler Clay captures for the reader in this lovely work. The Delta is also the most un-suburban place in America. Many artists (including other photographers) have tackled the subject before. However, I know of no one who has transmitted the visual essence -- at once quiet and powerful -- of what this place is quite like native daughter Clay: she has given us a glimpse into the other-worldliness of her home. While distinct qualities of American regional identity fade elsewhere, the Mississippi Delta remains our wild country, where the land and its knowing tenants make no mistake that they are in an untamed place of severe beauty, devoid of sentimentality. The photographer from Sumner has gotten all of this right.
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Summary: There is always more!
Review: A beautiful book in many ways. Great intro by one of my favorite and soon to be many other's favorite authors,I hope and pray. Beautiful photographs well printed and simply edited one after another in some inevitable chain of command. Logic,clarity,and order are hard to beat in a bound volume of prints,a portfolio that has been organised for you. Nitpicking complaints would be about size; since they are landscapes, they and the book could have physically bigger and more accessable; and of course quantity. Such are the vagaries and economics of printing. It's a photo book but the afterword is well worth reading for insights on the place and the history. I travel a lot and go to many "places" and there is always some sense of place;it could be the gene pool and how it affects the way people look,it could be the architecture,the land, the light, or any combination of those and other non-visual aspects. For a photographer Maude clay has a way with words.
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Summary: Delta Land
Review: As a child of this place called the Delta, this was my world. This was home. Ms. Clay has captured it as it was in my childhood - and as it, to some extent, continues to be. The scenes she portrayed were classics. I may not have seen a particular church or bayou, but I have undoubtedly seen its twin. The black-and-white photographs add a timelessness that color could not. These photographs could have been made in the 50's as easily as the 90's. Much remains the same in the Delta today. Delta Land is a must for all who call this place home. Thanks, Ms. Clay. This book is what I was looking for - even though I didn't realize it until I first turned its pages.
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Summary: Delta Land
Review: As a child of this place called the Delta, this was my world. This was home. Ms. Clay has captured it as it was in my childhood - and as it, to some extent, continues to be. The scenes she portrayed were classics. I may not have seen a particular church or bayou, but I have undoubtedly seen its twin. The black-and-white photographs add a timelessness that color could not. These photographs could have been made in the 50's as easily as the 90's. Much remains the same in the Delta today. Delta Land is a must for all who call this place home. Thanks, Ms. Clay. This book is what I was looking for - even though I didn't realize it until I first turned its pages.
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Summary: photographing loss
Review: Currenting residing in Germany (and England before that), I often think about the Mississippi in which I grew up with mixed emotions. Maude Schuyler Clay's stunning photographs, with their dark aesthetic, render visible some of the emotional landscapes and scenes that I visit occasionally in my dreams (which border on the nightmarish). Her photographs are, in my opinion, meditations on loss, on some truth of the past that slips irrevocably beyond grasp at the moment of its apperception. The artist shows us ash-covered, post-nuclear landscapes whose projection of annihilation is terrifyingly beautiful and profound. As Lewis Nordan's wonderfully written introduction points out, there are no pictures of cotton pickers in this collection of Mississippi images. The subject of these photos is far more interior and complex, inspiring reflection on the passage of time, memory, death, guilt, and the fragility of the human condition.
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Summary: photographing loss
Review: Currenting residing in Germany (and England before that), I often think about the Mississippi in which I grew up with mixed emotions. Maude Schuyler Clay's stunning photographs, with their dark aesthetic, render visible some of the emotional landscapes and scenes that I visit occasionally in my dreams (which border on the nightmarish). Her photographs are, in my opinion, meditations on loss, on some truth of the past that slips irrevocably beyond grasp at the moment of its apperception. The artist shows us ash-covered, post-nuclear landscapes whose projection of annihilation is terrifyingly beautiful and profound. As Lewis Nordan's wonderfully written introduction points out, there are no pictures of cotton pickers in this collection of Mississippi images. The subject of these photos is far more interior and complex, inspiring reflection on the passage of time, memory, death, guilt, and the fragility of the human condition.
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Summary: observations on the Delta landscape
Review: I hope anyone with an interest in photography, landscape, the Mississippi Delta, literature, civil rights history, the history of cotton farming, et al, will take a look at my DELTA LAND book. I would like to hear from you via email. Maude Schuyler Clay July 4, 2000
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Summary: A book for anyone with a sense of place
Review: If you feel a special attachment to your particular place on the planet, this book is for you. If you feel a great longing for a place that was once home, this book is for you. If there is no such place for you, but you wish there were, this book is for you. If you simply want to see a place, any place, through the eyes of someone who feels *place* keenly, deeply, naturally, this book is for you.In *Delta Land*, Maude Schuyler Clay shares her love of place, warts and all, with you. The photographs are luminous and tender and crafted strongly, and filled with a deep, genetic understanding of the Mississippi Delta. If place has any meaning for you at all, you will find your own sensibilities on every page. Place matters most perhaps to those who no longer have a place. Maude Schuyler Clay's *Delta Land* shows why.
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Summary: A book for anyone with a sense of place
Review: If you feel a special attachment to your particular place on the planet, this book is for you. If you feel a great longing for a place that was once home, this book is for you. If there is no such place for you, but you wish there were, this book is for you. If you simply want to see a place, any place, through the eyes of someone who feels *place* keenly, deeply, naturally, this book is for you. In *Delta Land*, Maude Schuyler Clay shares her love of place, warts and all, with you. The photographs are luminous and tender and crafted strongly, and filled with a deep, genetic understanding of the Mississippi Delta. If place has any meaning for you at all, you will find your own sensibilities on every page. Place matters most perhaps to those who no longer have a place. Maude Schuyler Clay's *Delta Land* shows why.
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