Doy Gorton's White South 1969-70 with Jane Adams

DOY GORTON'S

WHITE SOUTH

1969 - 70

WITH JANE ADAMS

"The photos document a time when “everything was changing,” yet what was to come next was unclear. The Supreme Court ordered the immediate integration of schools in the South, the Vietnam War raged and Neil Armstrong walked on the moon." - James Estrin for The New York Times

Artist Biography

Doy D. Gorton is a photojournalist who worked as Chief Photographer of the Philadelphia Inquirer and Washington Photographer for the New York Times covering the White House and Capitol Hill. Gorton attended the University of Mississippi where he became engaged with the Civil Rights Movement through Fannie Lou Hamer and John Lewis. He is the only white Mississippian who was on the staff of the Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee (SNCC). He also was part of SNCC Photo and a founder SDS Photo (Students for a Democratic Society).

Doy Gorton's WHITE SOUTH 1969 - 1970 with Jane Adams

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Pre-Press Acclaim

"Like Sally Mann, the photographs of Doy Gorton capture a piece of the Southern past. There is a stark realistic quality to his photographs, more blank confessional verse than romantic sonnets about the South. Yet if you ask him about them, he will say that his photography is about living in the present, not the past." - W. Ralph Eubanks, Mississippi Today

"Because of his background and connections in Mississippi, Mr. Gorton was able to gain intimate access to situations that would have been difficult for a Northern photographer to enter.

Mr. Gorton battled violent, systemic racism and segregation at the University of Mississippi and during his time with S.N.C.C. He was not alone. There were always some white Southerners who challenged the Jim Crow system from within." - James Estrin, The New York Times

"Its racist past still hangs heavy over the White South. But as with anything, it is rarely as simple as everything being bad - one of the reasons photographer Doy Gorton set out to illustrate the White South, his home, in a more nuanced light, writes James Jeffrey." - BBC