What Has Been Will Be Again: Photographic Meditations on Social Isolation in Alabama

Authors

Jared Ragland, Utah State University
Catherine Wilkins, University of South Florida

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"Social isolation is both a phrase and an experience that has defined the past year in the wake of the global Covid-19 pandemic. Jared Ragland’s ongoing photographic travelogue, What Has Been Will Be Again: Photographic Meditations on Social Isolation in Alabama, expressly evokes the loneliness that has characterized this period; solitary subjects inhabit these frames, and many images in the series are devoid of people altogether. One can imagine the photographer, alone, navigating deserted landscapes with only a camera as his companion, documenting the recent ravaging of the public sphere. Yet, while the theme is certainly au courant, What Has Been features subjects for whom social isolation is nothing new. This body of work, instead, makes a case for a long history of isolation and alienation in the artist’s home state—one that has exacted a costly human toll."

Publication Date

12-8-2021

Relational Format

journal article

Disciplines

American Studies | Photography

Recommended Citation

Ragland, Jared and Wilkins, Catherine, "What Has Been Will Be Again: Photographic Meditations on Social Isolation in Alabama" (2021). Study the South. 4.
https://egrove.olemiss.edu/studythesouth/4

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