Mississippi baptism photo from Partial to Home exhibit signed by Birney Imes. 16x20" print (limited quantity).
 
Birney Imes' photos of distinctive people and places in a decomposing Old South—especially of archaic juke joints and scenes of African American survival—are iconic. It's no wonder that Americana songstress Lucinda Williams tapped Imes' stunning 1991 book JUKE JOINT for not only album cover art but also song lyrics. (Buy that book here: www.cathead.biz/books-art)
 
This poster print comes from one of the photographer's many museum exhibitions and looks amazing in a frame on a wall near you.
 
Birney was born in Columbus, Mississippi, in 1951. Along with his personal work, he shot commercial work for local clients and took assignments for magazines like Rolling Stone, The Village Voice and Texas Monthly. Drawing inspiration from the photographs of other Southern artists like Eudora Welty and William Eggleston, his work concentrates on the American South and has been exhibited widely in solo and group shows, including The Art Institute of Chicago, the Museum of Modern Art and the Whitney Museum of American Art in New York City, the Center for Creative Photography at the University of Arizona, and the Ogden Museum of Southern Art in New Orleans, Louisiana. In 1991 University Press of Mississippi published JUKE JOINT, the first of Imes' three books.