Anderson Scott

While its roots rest in the early 19th century, photography has now matured into a distinctive art form that melds commonplace technology with human vision. Originally a costly medium, the advent of digital photography has freed photographers from the chemistry, and even the alchemy, of image-making of the past.

Anderson Scott was a native Alabamian who relocated to Atlanta, Georgia. From that home base, Scott roamed across America, recording the ways in which 20th-century culture and society left their marks. While he traveled widely, he was constantly drawn back to his homeland—discovering and embracing the often strange, incongruous sights of the South and then capturing them with his lens.

This collection of photographs surveys Scott’s deeply-personal perspective which skews heavily toward irony and visual dissonance. He was a man raised in the “New South,” who saw that its distinctive past was, and is, not very far from its present.