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Bayard Wootten

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Year: 1979 (1970s)
Authors: UNC Sea Grant College Program
Subjects: Marine resources; Oceanography; Coastal zone management; Coastal ecology
Publisher: (Raleigh, N. C. : UNC Sea Grant College Program)
Contributing Library: State Library of North Carolina
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A HISTORIAN'S COAST B. light & Air By David Cecelski • Photos courtesy of the North Carolina Collection at UNC-Chapel Hill "ayard Wootten has long been one of my favorite photographers. Born in New Bern in 1875, she ran portrait studios in New Bern and Chapel Hill for nearly half a century. She was both a talented studio photographer and a gifted pictorialist with a fine artist's eye. She went anywhere, anytime, to get a good photograph. Camera in hand, she stayed for days in an Appalachian logging camp, flew in a Wright brothers' airplane and prowled the Croatan swamps. Wootten's life and work are introduced to younger generations in Light and Air: The Photography of Bayard Wootten, a splendid new book by Jerry Cotten, the photographic archivist at UNC-Chapel Hill's North Carolina Collection. Cotten's book tells much about North Carolina earlier this century. Light and Air focuses on Wootten's photographs of the Great Depression. They stand out in sharp contrast to the better- known pictures made by the photographers of the Farm Security Adminis- tration (FSA), a New Deal agency charged with documenting rural hardship. Full of pathos and hopelessness, the FSA photographs are the most enduring images of the 1930s. Let Us Now Praise Famous Men, by James Agee and Walker Evans, contains probably the best-known photographs
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Photographer Bayard Wootten at work of that ilk: stark images of hollow-eyed Alabama tenant farmers living dreary, poverty-stricken lives. FSA photographers such as Walker Evans and Dorothea Lange have had the most profound influence on American documentary photography this century. But while their photographs inspired pity, they rarely meant much to Southern- ers. This is not because people in the South failed to recognize the FSA's harsh images of the Depression. Rare was the rural Southern family that did not know poverty and privation in those years. Rather, few Southerners, black or white, agreed with the bleak, one- dimensional view of the human spirit portrayed in the FSA photographs. Wootten saw a different South, though her photographs did not ignore the hardships of the Great Depression. She did not conceal ragged clothes, dilapidated homes or the gauntness of so many of the people she photographed. But my favorite of Wootten's photographs go far beyond social criticism — they depict a hard-pressed people mustering the grace and strength to survive the Great Depression. Look, for instance, at the 1937 photograph of the girl taking a break from picking strawberries (opposite page). She was one of many seasonal Continued COASTWATCH 19

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People of North Carolina photographed by Bayard Wootten

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Year: 1979 (1970s)
Authors: UNC Sea Grant College Program
Subjects: Marine resources; Oceanography; Coastal zone management; Coastal ecology
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workers who traveled every spring to Chadbourn, in Columbus County, to labor in the strawberry fields. Though no longer the world's largest strawberry market, as it had been from 1895 to 1905, Chadbourn still attracted pickers from all over southeastern North Carolina. To say that this photograph ignores the girl's plight because she looks so content — as many defenders of the FSA school of documentary photography might — misses Wootten's point entirely. In fact, you cannot miss the signs of the girl's hard life: her frayed dress full of holes, missing buttons, ragged shawl, work-worn hands. Wootten's home- state audience would also have known that, being in Chadbourn, the girl was from a family in the direst straits. A North Carolina tobacco laborer A fisherman mending nets, 1930s Loading tulips, Pinetown But Wootten's photograph shows the girl's shining spirit rising above all that misfortune. Look, too, at the photograph of Ben Owen turning a pot in Jugtown, in Moore County, in the 1930s (page 21). For a century, craftsmen and women had been making pottery out of the central piedmont's crude red clay. They lived in a hard, unforgiving region of the state for farming, where the clay soil was more curse than boon. But potters like Owen took what little the land gave them — the clay — and created breathtakingly beautiful shapes and glazes. Wootten's genius was to catch Owen at just that moment when the 20 HOLIDAY 1998

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A girl in Chadbourn, North Carolina, during the Great Depression; photograph by Bayard Wootten

Title: Coast watch
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Year: 1979 (1970s)
Authors: UNC Sea Grant College Program
Subjects: Marine resources; Oceanography; Coastal zone management; Coastal ecology
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Bayard Wootten

Title: Coast watch
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Year: 1979 (1970s)
Authors: UNC Sea Grant College Program
Subjects: Marine resources; Oceanography; Coastal zone management; Coastal ecology
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A HISTORIAN'S COAST B. light & Air By David Cecelski • Photos courtesy of the North Carolina Collection at UNC-Chapel Hill "ayard Wootten has long been one of my favorite photographers. Born in New Bern in 1875, she ran portrait studios in New Bern and Chapel Hill for nearly half a century. She was both a talented studio photographer and a gifted pictorialist with a fine artist's eye. She went anywhere, anytime, to get a good photograph. Camera in hand, she stayed for days in an Appalachian logging camp, flew in a Wright brothers' airplane and prowled the Croatan swamps. Wootten's life and work are introduced to younger generations in Light and Air: The Photography of Bayard Wootten, a splendid new book by Jerry Cotten, the photographic archivist at UNC-Chapel Hill's North Carolina Collection. Cotten's book tells much about North Carolina earlier this century. Light and Air focuses on Wootten's photographs of the Great Depression. They stand out in sharp contrast to the better- known pictures made by the photographers of the Farm Security Adminis- tration (FSA), a New Deal agency charged with documenting rural hardship. Full of pathos and hopelessness, the FSA photographs are the most enduring images of the 1930s. Let Us Now Praise Famous Men, by James Agee and Walker Evans, contains probably the best-known photographs
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Photographer Bayard Wootten at work of that ilk: stark images of hollow-eyed Alabama tenant farmers living dreary, poverty-stricken lives. FSA photographers such as Walker Evans and Dorothea Lange have had the most profound influence on American documentary photography this century. But while their photographs inspired pity, they rarely meant much to Southern- ers. This is not because people in the South failed to recognize the FSA's harsh images of the Depression. Rare was the rural Southern family that did not know poverty and privation in those years. Rather, few Southerners, black or white, agreed with the bleak, one- dimensional view of the human spirit portrayed in the FSA photographs. Wootten saw a different South, though her photographs did not ignore the hardships of the Great Depression. She did not conceal ragged clothes, dilapidated homes or the gauntness of so many of the people she photographed. But my favorite of Wootten's photographs go far beyond social criticism — they depict a hard-pressed people mustering the grace and strength to survive the Great Depression. Look, for instance, at the 1937 photograph of the girl taking a break from picking strawberries (opposite page). She was one of many seasonal Continued COASTWATCH 19

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Bayard Wootten taking pictures in Great Lake, Craven County, 1909. From the H. H. Brimley Photo Collection, PhC.42, State Archives of North Carolina.

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Photos of people of North Carolina by Bayard Wootten, 1930s

Title: Coast watch
Identifier: coastwatch00uncs_11 (find matches)
Year: 1979 (1970s)
Authors: UNC Sea Grant College Program
Subjects: Marine resources; Oceanography; Coastal zone management; Coastal ecology
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plain and glorious seem one and the same. Finally, look closely at the young black laborer standing in a tobacco field (page 20). You know he has worked in brutally hot, humid weather since sunrise. His fingers ache from cropping tobacco. The leaf nicotine stings his skin. His feet hurt. Notice, though, how he holds himself and wears his tattered trousers: He's the picture of verve and vim. Wootten has captured a strength of will that surpasses the limits of that tobacco field. Hard times will not hold this young fellow down. That's what Wootten was ultimately saying: We can rise above the Great Depres- sion and even what author Robertson Davies once called that "underlying, deep grief of things." We can do it right here, in this place, out of our own hearts, with our own two hands. The FSA photographers never saw it, never believed we had it in us. They saw merely the hard red clay of Depression-era lives. Wootten saw how North Carolina people turned that clay into the human equivalent of Jugtown's pottery; that is, into lives of quiet grace and, sometimes, iridescent beauty. □ David Cecelski is a historian at the University of North Carolina-Chapel Hill's Southern Oral History Program and a regular columnist for Coastwatch. Ben Owen turning a pot, Jugtown COASTWATCH 21

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