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The Photography of Jack Leigh

Made famous by a Jack Leigh photograph on the cover of the book "Midnight in the Garden of Good and Evil," "Bird Girl" no longer sits upon a grave at Bonaventure Cemetery in Savannah, Georgia. Because of Leigh's image, the mysterious and beautiful statue was too much of a tourist draw. In his website, Leigh displays the breadth of his work. Influenced heavily by the WPA work of Dorthea Lange and Walker Evans, Leigh travels the South and documents beautiful scenes and common folk typically along water and composed carefully in medium format black and white. Jack Leigh's award-winning photographs have appeared in "museums and gallery exhibitions, magazines, and newspapers and in four highly acclaimed books--Oystering: A Way of Life; The Ogeechee: A River and Its People, Nets & Doors: Shrimping in Southern Waters; and Seaport: A Waterfront at Work. He has been the recipient of a Southern Arts Federation/National Endowment for the Arts Fellowship in Photography." Visit an online exhibit of this gifted artist at his website linked above.

Thu, 16 Mar 2000 07:36:36 -0800

Submitted by: Marty Tetloff