Decades of photography question what defines the South in Georgia Museum of Art exhibit

Builder Levy (b. 1942), “Lucious Thompson with Destiny Clark and Delena Brooks, Tom Biggs Hollow, McRoberts, Letcher County, Kentucky,” 2002. Gold-tone silver gelatin print, 13 × 9 3/4 inches. The Do Good Fund, Inc., 2016–82.

 ”Reckonings and Reconstructions,” an exhibition on view at UGA’s Georgia Museum of Art, invites viewers to consider what defines the South through several decades of Southern photography. The show presents the first display of the entire Do Good Fund collection, spanning generations of photography from the 1950s to the present. Georgia Museum of Art curator Jeffrey Richmond-Moll joined “City Lights” host Lois Reitzes via Zoom to talk more about the exhibition’s scope and statements on Southern life.

Interview highlights:

On the blurred lines of Southern geography, identity and mythos: