One Time, One Place

Eudora Welty was the author of many novels and story collections, including The Optimist’s Daughter (winner of the Pulitzer Prize), Losing Battles, The Ponder Heart, The Robber Bridegroom, and A Curtain of Green and Other Stories, as well as collections of her photographic work—Photographs and Country Churchyards, both published by University Press of Mississippi.

"Eudora Welty’s photographs of Depression-era Mississippi reveal how the place she loved opened a door in her mind, allowing her to see the entire expanse of the Magnolia State as her literary canvas. These images are as much a part of Welty’s literary legacy as her books and stories." - W. Ralph Eubanks, author of A Place Like Mississippi: A Journey Through a Real and Imagined Literary Landscape"One Time, One Place: Mississippi in the Depression: A Snapshot Album by Eudora Welty, is recognized as a landmark in the history of southern photography. The same gift of storytelling Welty brought to the page as a writer of fiction, she captured on film with a camera. University Press of Mississippi has remastered this iconic publication. The layout, sequencing, and text remain true to the original. Yet, this new edition utilizing state-of-the-art advancements in scanning and printing technologies brings the image quality of Welty’s photographs to new heights. Welty’s photographs can now be experienced like never before with sharper details and richer tones, giving new life to Welty’s photographs that have come to visually define 1930s and ’40s Mississippi." - Richard McCabe, curator of photography at the Ogden Museum of Southern Art