Welty referred to her photographs as РІР‚СљsnapshotsРІР‚Сњ on account of both their casual nature and her lack of formal training. Most of the prints on view were made by Welty herself, many of them small wallet-sized or contact prints, with straightforward descriptions like Boy with Pig on a Leash or Front Yard, Yazoo County. These images are displayed alongside others taken in New Orleans and New York City, all depicting the rural and urban sides of an economically ravaged America. Along the way, she also took personal photographs. Currently on view at the Ogden Museum of Southern Art is a selection of WeltyРІР‚в„ўs photographs taken in the 1930s and '40s-her most active period as a photographer.Р”Вuring this time, Welty was working for the Works Progress Administration as a publicity agent, traveling throughout her native Mississippi, writing articles and documenting Depression-era life in the South. Before she had a single story published, a young Welty took pictures and continued doing so through the 1950s (when she lost her Rolleiflex camera at a Paris train stop, as curator Richard McCabe notes).

What many may not know is that she was also an avid photographer. Pulitzer Prize-winner Eudora Welty is best known for the novels and short stories that cemented her status as one of the SouthРІР‚в„ўs consummate writers.

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