It is a new collection whose forty-three prints from the mid- and late-1930s, and critical essays written for this volume, advocate for Welty as an important photographer whose work can stand alongside Dorothea Lange, Walker Evans, and other New-Deal documentary artists.ĢThese photos selected by Welty scholar Pearl McHaney, editor of A Writer’s Eye: Collected Book Reviews, are founded on formal balance and the play of shape and light and texture.
1 Eudora Welty as Photographer is part of a growing appreciation for her achievements as an artist in two fields, rather than an admired writer who also took pictures.