Eudora Welty
n.d.
Baby Bluebird, Bird Pageant, Jackson, MS

Gelatin silver print
Various sizes
 
Source requested
Courtesy Eudora Welty Collection, Mississippi Department of Archives and History, Jackson, MS
 
Welty learned "a story-writer's truth: the thing to wait on, to reach there in time for, is the moment in which people reveal themselves. . . . Insight doesn't happen often on the click of the moment, like a lucky snapshot, but comes in its own time and more slowly and from nowhere but within. . . . My continuing passion, would be not to point the finger in judgment but to part a curtain, that invisible shadow that falls between people, the veil of indifference to each other's presence, each other's wonder, each other's human plight."
 
Eudora Welty, One Time, One Place, Mississippi in the Depression: A Snapshot Album (New York: Random House, 1971), 7-8.
 
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