Ken Light
River Baptism, Moon Lake, Coahoma County, Mississippi, 1989

Selenium-toned gelatin silver print, 14 x 11 inches
Limited-edition vintage print, signed, verso
Unframed
Courtesy of the artist
Estimated value: $3,500

The photo River Baptism, Coahoma County, Mississippi is taken from the book Delta Time (Smithsonian Institution Press, 1995), which was a photographic journey through the poorest communities of the Mississippi Delta. The images capture the legacy of sharecropping, racism, and poverty in the Deep South—a land where time has brought little change. The photographs were taken between 1989 and 1992.

About the Artist:
Ken Light

Ken Light has worked as a documentary photographer, focusing on social issues facing America for over 50 years. His work has been published in twelve books, including Course of the Empire, Midnight La Frontera, What’s Going On? 1969–1974, Coal Hollow, Delta Time, To the Promised Land, With These Hands, Texas Death Row, and Valley of Shadows and Dreams. He is also the author of the text Witness in Our Time: Lives of Working Documentary Photographers, and Picturing Resistance. He is the recipient of a Guggenheim Fellowship, two National Endowment for the Arts Photographers Fellowships and the Dorothea Lange Fellowship.

His work has been in numerous magazines, newspapers, and a variety of media (electronic and film), and presented in over 230 exhibitions worldwide, including one-person shows at the International Center for Photography, New York; Oakland Museum of California; Southeast Museum of Photography, Dayton Beach, FL; Visual Studies Workshop, Rochester, NY; Visa pour l’image, Perpignan, France; and the San Jose Museum of Art. He was the first photographer to become a Laventhol Visiting Professor at Columbia University Graduate School of Journalism, New York, and is the Reva and David Logan Professor of Photojournalism at the Graduate School of Journalism at UC Berkeley.

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