Description: "This exhibition and accompanying catalogue are the first large-scale survey of the Do Good Fund's remarkable and sweeping collection of photography made in the South from the 1950s to the present. Since its founding in 2012, the Do Good Fund has built a museum-quality collection of photography that charts a visual narrative of the ever-changing American South. The collection includes images by more than 25 Guggenheim Fellows, five Magnum Photographers and two Henri Cartier-Bresson Award winners as well as images by lesser-known or emerging photographers from the region. In part a survey of the art and artists within Do Good's holdings, the exhibition is also and more crucially a scholarly investigation of southern photography since World War II"--
Brief description: JEFFREY RICHMOND-MOLL is the curator of American art at the Georgia Museum of Art and cochair of the Association of Historians of American Art. He is the author of the exhibition catalog Extra Ordinary: Magic, Mystery, and Imagination in American Realism. His work has also been published in several journals, such as Archives of American Art Journal, MAVCOR Journal, and Winterthur Portfolio: A Journal of American Material Culture. He lives in Athens, Georgia.
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There is no Athens school of photography. They are simply artists who live and make work there, part of a
creative community that exists because of the university and the scene. Their best pictures do what all great art
does: they help us see.