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MATT HERRON (1931-2020) Mississippi Eyes, Local Boy with mules, monthly meeting of the New Hope Missionary Baptist Church. Silver print, the image measuring 13 1/2x10 3/8 inches (34.3x26.3 cm.), the mount 20x16 inches (50.8x40.6 cm), with Herron's signature and negative date in pencil on mount recto, and his credit, copyright date, and extended title in pencil on mount verso. 1964; printed 1978
Matt Herron, who described himself as a "propagandist" for civil rights organizations and was a protégé of Dorothea Lange, assembled a team of photographers to document the movement's clashes between Southern whites and Black protestors. He immersed himself in the project, living in the South, and focusing primarily on ordinary Black citizens rather than the leaders of the marches and protests. The resulting images were intense and sensitive, imbued with power and immediacy. Herron's book, Mississippi Eyes, drawing on the influence of Lange, organizing a team of practitioners to share what it was like to live and work in a region consumed by the Civil Rights movement. His Southern Documentary Project relies on images and words to document this extraordinary, dangerous, and pivotal time.
Reproduced: Herron, Mississippi Eyes, The Story and Photography of the Southern Documentary Project (University Press of Mississippi), cover
