Memphis (Signed First Edition)
Language: English
Published by The Center for American Places in association with the University of Mississippi Press, Santa Fe, NM, Harrisburg, VA and Jackson, MS, 2002
- First Edition
- Signed
- Hardcover
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First edition and first printing. Oblong hardcover. 148 pages. Features an introduction by Charles Reagan Wilson. Includes numerous color photographs and text by Larry E. McPherson. A fine copy in cloth boards and in a very near fine dust jacket. Signed and warmly inscribed by McPherson to fellow photographer Barbara Crane. Uncommon signed and especially as an association copy.
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- Title
- Memphis (Signed First Edition)
- Author
- McPHERSON, Larry E.
- Publisher
- The Center for American Places in association with the University of Mississippi Press, Santa Fe, NM, Harrisburg, VA and Jackson, MS
- Publication year
- 2002
- Dust jacket
- Dust Jacket Included
- Signed
- Signed
- Binding
- Hardcover
- Language
- English
- ISBN 10
- 1930066031
- ISBN 13
- 9781930066038
- Edition
- First Edition.
- Item weight
- 3.375 pounds
- Seller catalogs
- Photography
Residents and visitors know the city of Memphis by many names―Bluff City, Big Shelby, Blues City, and the Good Samaritan of the Mississippi.
In this book of 122 full-color photographs, Larry E. McPherson captures the history and sense of place that make Memphis what it is often called today, the Crossroads of the Mid-South.
Memphis brings to life the streets, buildings, and outskirts of the river-powered city where sumptuous homes of cotton planters verged on rough shanties of slaves and later poor Black people, dock workers, and boatmen.
McPherson’s Memphis is an artistic rendering of the city’s soul. His full-color photographs tap the entrepreneurial and creative energy of Sun Studios, Beale Street, Graceland, Cotton Row, and Federal Express. They focus on civil rights history in photographs of the Lorraine Motel, Mason Temple, and City Hall.
This photographic panorama comprises all areas in and around Memphis―the downtown, the midtown, the suburbs, nearby farms, and surrounding natural areas along the Mississippi and Wolf rivers―and draws attention to the complex relationship between urban development and natural environment.
The photographs include locations important to business, architecture, musical heritage, and the legacy of civil rights. Scenes of road building, suburban development, and the revitalization of the downtown dramatize the city’s dynamic change in the twentieth century. In accompanying captions, the photographer turns an extra lens on history.
Giving an overview to the splendid photography, the introductory essay by Charles Reagan Wilson, an esteemed scholar of southern culture, recounts the history of the city’s development and connects Memphis to the heart of the Mid-South.
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About the Author
Charles Reagan Wilson recently retired as the Kelly Gene Cook Chair of History and Southern Studies at the University of Mississippi and is the author of multiple works of southern history and general editor of The New Encyclopedia of Southern Culture.
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