† Jack Spencer
(American/Mississippi, b. 1951)
"Baptismal Candidates, Moon Lake, Mississippi: Native Soil Series"
gelatin silver print
pencil-signed and numbered "15/50" lower margin.
Matted, glazed and framed.
sight 18" x 18", framed 30" x 29-1/4"
Provenance: Bassetti Fine Art Photographs, New Orleans, Louisiana.

The Mississippi-born photographer Jack Spencer found inspiration in the South for his "Native Soil" series. This critically acclaimed series was Spencer's first monograph, in which he explored the people and places of small Mississippi and Louisiana towns.

Literature: Spencer, Jack, intro by Ellen Douglas, Native Soil, Louisiana State University Press: Baton Rouge, 1999.

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