TCF Ep. 285 - Magdalena Sole

The Candid Frame: Conversations on Photography

Ibarionex R. Perello

Arts, Visual Arts

4.8 • 768 Ratings

🗓️ 3 August 2015

⏱️ 48 minutes

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Summary

The culture of the Mississippi Delta is a wealthy one. Just as its land has been a rich source for cotton and soybean, the people of the Delta have been ripe for stories, both written and visual. Whether it’s William Faulkner with a typewriter or William Eggleston with his camera, each artist has proven the Delta as an endless source of inspiration. It’s a place that has lured many a photographer. But it’s a place filled with contradictions. As rich as it is for the creative artist, the existence of poverty, economic disparity and the legacy of slavery and Jim Crow is not far behind. It makes it hard to idealize or demonize a place and its people. To know the place, you have to go deeper. And that is what photographer, Magdalena Sole does in her book, New Delta Rising. It’s beautiful, stunning photographs provide an insightful view of the Delta, both good and bad. But most importantly, it allows the people in her images to tell their own stories in a collection of essays that compliments the photographs. If a book that reveal the soul of a place, this one is it. Resources: Magdalena Website http://www.solepictures.com Mary Ellen Mark Website http://www.maryellenmark.com New Delta Rising (on Amazon) http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/161703150X?creativeASIN=161703150X&linkCode=w00&linkId=S6PW5YEZHJDRUFFC&ref_=as_sl_pc_tf_til&tag=thecanfra-20 The Candid Frame Website http://ibarionex.net/thecandidframe/ Email thecandidframe@gmail.com

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0:31.2	Build it beautiful.
0:38.3	This is Ebody and X, and this is The Candid Frame.
0:40.5	Mississippi.
0:47.5	When you hear the name, you think about juke joint blues, the lyricism of William Faulkner and the white expanse of a cotton crumb.
0:50.5	But it also gives rise to the seemingly unrelenting hold of poverty and the legacy of slavery
0:56.9	and Jim Crowe. But to the people who live in the state, specifically in the Mississippi Delta,
1:03.6	it's home. Despite the economic challenges and the lingering effects of slavery and segregation,
1:12.8	the people are something special. They aren't satisfied to be defined by just skin color or class. Many have identities
1:20.1	rooted in family, hard work, and the legendary warmth of their hospitality. It's these people
1:27.4	and this community, the photographer Magdalena Soleil,
1:31.0	captures in her book New Delta Rising.
1:34.4	Stunningly beautiful images, and the stories that accompany them reveal a Mississippi
1:39.2	that is as beautiful as it is complex.
1:43.8	Mississippi, there's no place like it. Thank you. as beautiful as it is complex. Mississippi.
1:44.9	There's no place like it.
1:54.4	Well, thank you for doing this.
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