Transfer of Grace: Images of the Lowcountry - Hardcover

Teresa Bruce

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0975349821 ISBN 13: 9780975349823

Publisher: Joggling Board Press, 2008

Synopsis

In the sticky heat of a South Carolina Lowcountry summer, horizons are swallowed by humidity. The curves of creeks and heavy skies blend and fade in ethereal ascension. Distances distort and textures soften in air too thick to breathe.

Photography can conjure up the essense of a place, the shifting layers of light, the fleeting presence of its past, and transfer its grace.

Wade into the work of Gary Geboy and the words of Teresa Bruce through the pages of Transfer of Grace.

Save a place for the Lowcountry in your soul.

About this title

About the Author

Gary Geboy's quarter of a century in photography and cinematography have taken him around the world -- from Peace Corps documentaries in Kyrgyzstan to a National Gallery of Art exhibit piece on the Olmecs of ancient Mexico.

He specializies in enviromental portraits from around the globe and in his new backyard -- the South Carolina Lowcountry. His work can be seen at the Smithsonian's Rock and Soul Museum in Memphis, Tennessee, the National Park Service visitor center at the Manzanar National Historic Site in California and the Kings Mountain National Military Park in Blacksburg, South Carolina.

Beaufort-based writer Teresa Bruce used the photographs of Transfer of Grace as inspiration for this Lowcountry lyric. Her documentary about the Gullah culture of the Lowcountry, God's Gonna Trouble the Water, aired nationally on PBS and won a Cine Golden Eagle Award.

From the Inside Flap

In the sticky heat of a South Carolina Lowcountry summer, horizons are swallowed by humidity. The curves of creeks and heavy skies blend and fade in ethereal ascension. Distances distort and textures soften in air too thick to breathe.But on a clear night, under a full moon at high tide, the water shimmers, a sideways-slipping sea. Pinch yourself to stay awake, for dreams can harbor no more liquid a mystery than the Lowcountry. Poetry can pattern no more regular a meter, song no more flowing a rhythm. But photography can conjure up the essence of a place, the shifting layers of light, the fleeting presence of its past, and transfer its grace.It began long ago, this softly shared and gentle grace. Native peoples left shell-ring maps to the natural treasures of the Lowcountry and rhythmic names for later tongues to try: Ashepoo, Combahee and Yemassee. Enslaved Africans brought with them and passed down arts like sweetgrass basket weaving and soulful song. Plantation owners, too, bequeathed a beauty to the Lowcountry - live oaks line the avenues to antebellum mansions. Traditions mingled and adapted. What is left is often the least tangible and most tenuous of tenders. Wade into the work of Gary Geboy and the words of Teresa Bruce through the pages of Transfer of Grace. Save a place for the Lowcountry in your soul.

Edition details

• Publisher: Joggling Board Press
• Publication date: 2008
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0975349821
• ISBN 13: 9780975349823
• Binding: Hardcover
• Illustrator: Gary Geboy, Photographer
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 122
• Editor: Susan Kammeraad-Campbell