Dark Waters, Kristine Potter's second monograph, continues her engagement with the American landscape as a palimpsest for cultural ideologies.

In this dark and brooding series, Potter reflects on the Southern Gothic landscape as evoked in the popular imagination of "murder ballads" from the nineteenth and twentieth centuries. Her seductive, richly detailed black-and-white images channel the setting and characters of these songs, capturing the landscape of the American South, and creating a series of evocative portraits that stand in for the oft-unnamed women at the center of their stories.

In the American murder ballad, which has taken on cult appeal and continue to be rerecorded even to this day, the riverscape is frequently the stage of crimes as described in their lyrics. Places like Murder Creek, Bloody Fork, and Deadman's Pond are haunted by both the victim and perpetrator of violence in the world Potter conjures, reflecting the casual and popular glamorization of violence against women that remains prevalent in today's cultural landscape. As Potter notes, "I see a through line of violent exhibitionism from those early murder ballads, to the Wild West shows, to the contemporary landscape of cinema and television. Culturally, we seem to require it." Dark Waters both evokes and exorcises the sense of threat and foreboding that women often grapple with as they move through the world. Author Rebecca Bengal contributes an evocative short story that underscores the sense of anxiety and foreboding that Potter infuses into each of her images; a deliciously compelling, if chilling, combination.

Copublished by Aperture with Images Vevey and The Momentary

Formato	Tapa dura
Número de Páginas	136
Lenguaje	Inglés
Editorial	Aperture
Fecha de Publicación	2023-07-11
Dimensiones	11.81" x 10.47" x 0.79" pulgadas
Letra Grande	No
Con Ilustraciones	Si
Temas	Femenino

Bengal, Rebecca

Rebecca Bengal is a writer of fiction and nonfiction, currently based in Brooklyn. She is a MacDowell fellowship recipient, a contributing editor at Oxford American, and a past editor at DoubleTake, American Short Fiction, the Onion, and Vogue.com. Her stories, interviews, essays, reported pieces, and collaborations with artists have been published by Aperture, the New York Times, the New Yorker, and the Paris Review. Bengal's first collection of essays, Strange Hours: Photography, Memory, and the Lives of Artists, is forthcoming from Aperture in 2023.

Potter, Kristine

Kristine Potter (born in Dallas, 1977) is an artist based in Nashville. She holds a BFA in photography; a BA in art history from the University of Georgia; and an MFA in photography from Yale University. In 2021, her work was included in But Still, It Turns, an exhibition (and book) curated by Paul Graham that launched at the International Center of Photography, New York, before traveling to the Rencontres de la Photographie, Arles, in 2022. Her awards include a Guggenheim Fellowship (2018) and the Grand Prix Images Vevey (2019-20). Manifest, her first monograph, was published in 2018. Potter is currently an assistant professor of photography at Middle Tennessee State University.