Description: Clarence John Laughlin (1905-1985) of New Orleans is an American artist best known for his surrealist photographs of the U.S. South. A double exposure used as the frontispiece for Clarence John Laughlin's book, Ghost Along the Mississippi. Laughlin describes this photograph as "from the mingled earth and water, the figure rises - evoking memory, and the plantation house sits in the tree of dreams." The past magnificence of the grand, glamorous, antebellum and neoclassical-style plantation houses is contrasted with their decaying facades. The once magnificent plantation tradition is only evident as a ghost within a decaying frame. The lighting is bright and the dark, dreamy Spanish moss seems to overgrow the falling apart structures. There is evidence of mold and rotten walls worn out by the effects of weather and time reminding of a dead lifestyle of southern plantations that are now overgrown by the wild plants and vegetation “This, the opening picture in Ghosts Along the Mississippi, projects some of the basic feeling of the book in the evocative figure rising from the marsh, the inverted landscape in a swampy mirage, the plantation house sitting in the tree of dream, is presented an image of those who seek completely to summon the past: those who fall beneath the magic spell of memory.” “Clarence John Laughlin: The Personal Eye.
Price: 3500 USD
Location: Metairie, Louisiana
End Time: 2024-09-14T19:53:14.000Z
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Restocking Fee: No
Return shipping will be paid by: Buyer
All returns accepted: Returns Accepted
Item must be returned within: 14 Days
Refund will be given as: Money Back
Type: Photograph
Year of Production: 1940
Signed By: Clarence John Laughlin
Size: 17.25" x 14.25" framed
Signed: Yes
Photographer: Clarence John Laughlin
Image Color: Black & White
Framing: Matted & Framed
