North Mississippi Homeplace: Photographs and Folklife

by Michael Ford

In the early 1970s photographer and documentary filmmaker Michael Ford left graduate school and a college teaching position in Boston, Massachusetts, packed his young family into a van, and headed to rural Mississippi, where he spent the next four years recording everyday life through interviews, still photographs, and film. The project took him to Oxford (in Lafayette County), as well as to Marshall, Panola, and Tate Counties, a remote area north...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0820354406
• ISBN13: 9780820354408
• Release Date: May 2019
• Publisher: University of Georgia Press
• Length: 200 Pages
• Weight: 2.25 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.8" x 9.3" x 9.2"