Photographs 2019

New foreword: "That's Just the Way It Was." By Natasha Trethewey, pp. ix–xi.

Foreword: "The Only News." By Reynolds Price, pp. xiii–xx.

Introduction: "Eudora Welty and Photography: An Interview." By Hunter Cole and Seetha Srinivasan, Jan. 1989, pp. xxi–xlii.

Additional Description:

Trade edition: Beige cloth with red foil stamping on spine and blind embossing on the front panel for Eudora Welty / PHOTOGRAPHS.

Dustjacket: Front and spine foil stamped and embossed with a red metallic foil for Eudora Welty, dark gray for PHOTOGRAPHS over an enlargement of a portion of plate 8 "Jackson / 1930s." Back—plate 63 "Front yard / Yazoo County / 1930s," excerpts from new foreword by Natasha Trethewey and from New York Times 1989 review. Inside front flap—comment by Maude Schuyler Clay and publisher's description. Inside back flap—brief photographer's biography.

Additional prose:

Acknowledgements. By Eudora Welty, May 1989, p. [vii] and by Mary Alice Welty White, Oct. 2018, p. [vii]; "In the Pictures of Family and Friends," p. [185].

Photographic contents:

252 black and white digital scans from original negatives and authentic prints: these include 1 frontispiece, "Cemetery stile / Rodney / 1940s"; 242 numbered photographs pp. [1–182] including plate 8 "Jackson / 1930s" printed on the front dustjacket; plate 221 "Katherine Anne Porter / Yaddo / 1940" and plate 5 "Ida M'Toy, midwife / 'Mama's Brooch' / Jackson / 1940" in the introduction; and plate 63 "Front yard / Yazoo County /1930s" on the back dustjacket; 9 unnumbered in the introduction, pp. xxiv, xxvi, xxx, xxxi, xxxiii, xxxv, xxxvi, xxxviii, xxxix, xl.

New photographic content (16 plates):

Plate 24 "Peanuts for sale / Mississippi / 1930s," plate 25 "A man of the thirties / Jackson / 1930s," plate 39 "Carrying the ice for Sunday dinner / near Bolton / 1930s," plate 40 "Dappled / Jackson /1930s," plate 76 "Buskers / Jackson /1930s," plate 77 "Watching a fire / Jackson / 1930s," plate 117 "River edge / Vicksburg / 1930s," plate 118 "Dredge / Vicksburg / 1930s," plate 123 "Putting up a billboard / Mississippi / 1930s," plate 125 "Abandoned 'lunatic asylum' / Jackson / 1940," plate 153 "Sideshow, State Fair / Jackson / 1930s," plate 154 "View from Ferris wheel / Jackson / 1930s," plate 162 "Potter / near Chapel Hill, North Carolina / 1930s," plate 169 "Shoeshine stand / Union Square / New York City / 1930s," plate 170 "Barber shop / New York City /1930s," plate 171 "Union Square / New York City / 1930s."