Hometown, Mississippi: Portraits from Ripley

Author

Adam Lee Stanford

Date of Award

2013

Document Type

Undergraduate Thesis

Department

Liberal Studies

First Advisor

David Wharton

Relational Format

Dissertation/Thesis

Abstract

This thesis explores a brief portion of the identity of Ripley. Mississippi, through oral histories given by six individuals. Over the course of nine months, I interv iewed and photographed these selected people and took pictures of the town using a 35mm film SLR camera. All the film and prints were processed and developed by myself in the darkroom at the University of Mississippi. Photographs dating from the early 1900s were displayed with re-photography of the same location to help accompany individuals' stories and show the physical changes of Ripley over time. Though these stories and photographs are not a comprehensive representation of the entire town over the course of the last century, they do serve as a glimpse into my hometown's character, history and change through the years. IV

Recommended Citation

Stanford, Adam Lee, "Hometown, Mississippi: Portraits from Ripley" (2013). Honors Theses. 2128.
https://egrove.olemiss.edu/hon_thesis/2128

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