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Photographs by pioneering North Carolina photographer Bayard Wootten have been given new life thanks to author Jerry Cotten and the University Libraries’ Digital Production Center.
Bayard Wootten was North Carolina’s most important photographer of the early 20th century. Over her career, Wootten produced photographs in a variety of styles. Perhaps her most significant contribution to photography was the work she did documenting poor rural people during the 1930s.
Jerry Cotten’s 1998 biography of Wootten, Light and Air, was recently republished. Staff in the Libraries’ Digital Production Center spent about a year on digital clean-up, preparing the images for publication.
For example, in the first set of photographs, the text on the top of the box at the boys’ feet wasn’t even visible in the 1998 edition of the book. The new edition is full of such revelations, heightening the power of Wootten’s images.
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Lindsey Jones and John Eirich in Rockefellers, Dance Heginbotham, Harkness Dance Festival, March 2018. © Julie Lemberger.
John Eirich and Jones are the space-age couple: both wearing accessories that look as if they are made of tin foil – he a tie, she a bow on her poofy pink cocktail dress. The couple allude to automated, de-personalized aspects of life
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Kate Bogucharskaia with architecture in “Jet Set Bohème” for Madame Figaro, February 2019. Photograph by Stefan Dotter.
“La robe glamour. Robe en tulle brodé, Longchamp. Collier Ciro pour Burma.”
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Giulia Maenza writing with architecture in “Work in Progress” for ELLE Italia, November 2020. Photograph by Laura Sciacovelli.
“Cappotto di twill techico (4,900 euro) e maxi bag di pelle con doppio manico (1,990 euro), tutto Balenciaga; bombetto Melegari; guanti Sermoneta.”
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Ballet British Columbia in Bill, March 2018. © Cindi Wicklund.
Bill was a dramatic gearshift. Sharon Eyal’s piece for Batsheva Dance Company went for quirky with a series of solos by dancers in skintight flesh-toned bodysuits – ricocheting around the stage with exaggeratedly cartoonish, jitteringly strange movements, like contemporary dance Minions, or malfunctioning androids.
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Romy Schonberger with sculpture and architecture in “Contrast & Conquer” for Harper’s Bazaar UK, April 2020. Photograph by Regan Cameron.
“Silk dress, £3,350; brass brooch, from a selection, both Louis Vuitton.”
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Smokey
Blood stains are seen on snow at the site of a plane crash outside Almaty January 29, 2013. The passenger plane crashed in thick fog near Kazakhstan’s commercial capital Almaty on Tuesday and broke into pieces when it hit the ground, killing all 21 people on board.
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