
{"id":16242,"date":"2011-02-24T11:52:25","date_gmt":"2011-02-24T16:52:25","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.carrborocitizen.com\/main\/?p=16242"},"modified":"2011-02-28T15:23:58","modified_gmt":"2011-02-28T20:23:58","slug":"atwater-farm-july-1-1939","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ibiblio.org\/carrborocitizen\/main\/2011\/02\/24\/atwater-farm-july-1-1939\/","title":{"rendered":"Atwater Farm, July 1, 1939"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>A Thousand Words<\/strong><br \/>\n<strong>By Jock Lauterer<br \/>\n<\/strong><br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/www.carrborocitizen.com\/main\/2011\/02\/24\/atwater-farm-july-1-1939\/\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.carrborocitizen.com\/main\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/02\/DorotheaLangeAtwaterFarm.jpg\" alt=\"\" title=\"DorotheaLangeAtwaterFarm\" width=\"500\" height=\"670\" class=\"alignright size-full wp-image-16244\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.ibiblio.org\/carrborocitizen\/main\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/02\/DorotheaLangeAtwaterFarm.jpg 500w, https:\/\/www.ibiblio.org\/carrborocitizen\/main\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/02\/DorotheaLangeAtwaterFarm-111x150.jpg 111w, https:\/\/www.ibiblio.org\/carrborocitizen\/main\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/02\/DorotheaLangeAtwaterFarm-84x113.jpg 84w, https:\/\/www.ibiblio.org\/carrborocitizen\/main\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/02\/DorotheaLangeAtwaterFarm-223x300.jpg 223w, https:\/\/www.ibiblio.org\/carrborocitizen\/main\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/02\/DorotheaLangeAtwaterFarm-59x80.jpg 59w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 500px) 100vw, 500px\" \/><\/a><br \/>\n\u00e2\u20ac\u02dc\u00e2\u20ac\u02dcFor me, documentary photography is less a matter of subject and more a matter of approach,\u00e2\u20ac\u009d wrote Dorothea Lange. \u00e2\u20ac\u0153The important thing is not what\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s photographed, but how.\u00e2\u20ac\u009d The famous Life magazine photographer, whose iconic \u00e2\u20ac\u0153Migrant Mother\u00e2\u20ac\u009d is burned on the inner-eye of our national consciousness, is less well-known for her work right here in central North Carolina. To right that wrong, photo-historian Steve Rankin has compiled an impressive website devoted to Lange\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s work in Orange, Chatham, Wake, Person and Granville counties, June 30-July 9,1939. One of my favorite photographs is, I believe, a reflection of Lange\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s gentle \u00e2\u20ac\u0153don\u00e2\u20ac\u2122t-stomp-on-the-daisies\u00e2\u20ac\u009d approach to her subjects. I can\u00e2\u20ac\u2122t help but feel that Caroline Atwater, standing in her kitchen doorway, shared a connection with the photographer. The Atwater home and farm, Rankin notes, was located six-tenths of a mile east of old Blackwood Station on Mt. Sinai Road in Orange County. (Ironically, Blackwood Station, just north of Chapel Hill off N.C. 86, is well known to older local Boy Scouts as a favorite camping ground back in the \u00e2\u20ac\u212250s and\u00e2\u20ac\u02dc60s.) To explore the painstaking work of Steve Rankin, go to tinyurl.com\/DortheaLange2<\/p>\n<p><strong>A THOUSAND WORDS<\/strong><br \/>\nDo you have an important old photo that you value? Email your photo to jock@email.unc.edu and include the story behind the picture. Because every picture tells a story. And its worth? A thousand words.<br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/www.carrborocitizen.com\/main\/sections\/a-thousand-words\/\">More &#8220;A Thousand Words&#8221;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u00e2\u20ac\u02dc\u00e2\u20ac\u02dcFor me, documentary photography is less a matter of subject and more a matter of approach,\u00e2\u20ac\u009d wrote Dorothea Lange.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":16244,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[422],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-16242","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-a-thousand-words"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ibiblio.org\/carrborocitizen\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16242","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ibiblio.org\/carrborocitizen\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ibiblio.org\/carrborocitizen\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ibiblio.org\/carrborocitizen\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ibiblio.org\/carrborocitizen\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=16242"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/www.ibiblio.org\/carrborocitizen\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16242\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":16255,"href":"https:\/\/www.ibiblio.org\/carrborocitizen\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16242\/revisions\/16255"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ibiblio.org\/carrborocitizen\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/16244"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ibiblio.org\/carrborocitizen\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=16242"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ibiblio.org\/carrborocitizen\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=16242"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ibiblio.org\/carrborocitizen\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=16242"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}