Thursday, October 7, 2010
Art news Finding SoLost
Posted by Leslie Newell Peacock on Thu, Oct 7, 2010 at 10:09 AM
Thanks to an Oxford American facebook entry, I found this NPR story on photographer Dave Anderson, who spoke here recently about his photographic record of a New Orleans city block post-Katrina ("One Block") that has been touring the country. The writer notes a series of serendipitous events that led her to the Little Rock photographer and his "SoLost" video vignettes of the South that can be found on the OA's website.
It all began a few weeks ago, as I was reading about a photo exhibition called One Block — a story of daily life on one block in post-Katrina New Orleans. Curious to know more, I contacted the photographer.Meanwhile, I had also been watching Oxford American magazine's documentary series about life in the American South. SoLost ("lost in the South" or, literally, "so lost") is described as an "off-kilter video journey through the side roads, backrooms, cellars and psyche of the modern South." (Read: It's awesome.) I decided to look up the producer as well.
Turns out, the One Block photographer and SoLost producer are the same person: Dave Anderson. And it gets weirder. Just yesterday he was in town presenting the latest SoLost installment, titled Gulf Life.
It's a nice piece with links to Anderson's videos (like the one above about a letterpress shop in Kentucky and below about Mountain View) and the OA's stellar website.
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OA's SoLost goes behind-the-scenes of 'Mud'
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April 29, 2013At South on Main. /more/
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Oxford American's SoLost receives NEA grant
April 25, 2013Oxford American's National Magazine Award-winning video series, SoLost, has received a $75,000 grant from the National Endowment of the Arts, the magazine announced today. Above, check out the latest from the series, featuring famed Little Rock architecture photograph Tim Hursley rhapsodizing about a broken-down silo in Hale County, Ala. /more/
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April 17, 2013The Oxford American's new venue, South on Main, has announced its first event, and if this is the sign of things to come — color us excited. On May 16, the OA will host novelist Nathaniel Rich, who's promoting his second, widely praised novel "Odd Against Tomorrow." /more/
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Matthew Bell readies Oxford American restaurant
February 28, 2013It'll serve what he calls "refined Southern" fare. /more/
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