John Edwin Mason: Documentary, Motorsports, Photo History

Hannah Price's City of Brotherly Love

It is a peculiar sensation, this double-consciousness, this sense of always looking at one's self through the eyes of others, of measuring one's soul by the tape of a world that looks on in amused contempt and pity. One ever feels his twoness, -- an American, a Negro; two souls,... Read more →

Stranger with an Octobox: "Appalucci," LaNola Stone's Appalachia

Imagine Appalachia. If you're lucky, you're thinking about mountains -- high enough to reach for the stars, low enough to be forested from hollow to peak. You might know something about the hills' lush summer greens and the stark beauty of winter's bare trees and cottony snow. Or you might... Read more →

Funky Friday & Convergences 7, Together Again for the First Time: Margaret Bourke-White, Marion Post Wolcott & Louis Jordan

Funky Fridays make me happy. It's a chance to show off music (and other funky stuff) that puts a glide in my stride and a dip in my hip. (By the way, if you're here for the tunes, skip all my talking and scroll down to the videos.) Convergences make... Read more →

"Stranger with a Camera": Death and Documentaries in Appalachia (and What It Has to Do with Africa)

"A camera is like a gun. It's threatening... it's invasive; it is exploitative, in terms of mass media. And it's not always true." --Colin Low, friend and colleague of Hugh O'Connor In 1967, Canadian filmmaker Hugh O'Connor bled to death on a country road in eastern Kentucky. He was in... Read more →