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Welty always considered this her family home, and, in giving it to the State of Mississippi, she emphasized that it was the house of her family, a family that honored books and reading. The library includes works produced by classic writers through the ages and by the best minds of the twentieth century. With virtually every wall lined with books, it is evident that this family of readers valued the written word. Its exterior, interior, and furnishings are as they were in 1986 when Welty made the decision to bequeath her home to the State of Mississippi: paintings, photographs, objects d’art, linens, furniture, draperies, rugs, and, above all, thousands of books in their original places. The Eudora Welty House is one of the most intact literary houses in America in terms of its authenticity. Hedrick, of the firm of Sanguinet, Staats, and Hedrick of Fort Worth, Texas, the firm that had designed the Lamar Life Building then under construction for the Lamar Life Insurance Company, of which Christian Welty was a senior officer. The Tudor Revival style house was designed for the Welty family by Wyatt C. In 1925 at age 16, Eudora, her parents, Christian and Chestina, and her two brothers, Edward and Walter, moved to their new home on Pinehurst Street in the Belhaven neighborhood. It was the home of internationally acclaimed author Eudora Welty from 1925 until her death in 2001, and the home where she wrote almost all of her fiction and essays. However, Welty also asserted that some things can only be affectively expressed through words and this is why writing remained with her forever.Designated a National Historic Landmark and listed on the National Register of Historic Places, the Eudora Welty House at 1119 Pinehurst Street in Jackson, Mississippi, is of exceptional national significance. She accepted that feelings are dependent on gestures and that she had to be prepared to recognize this and click. It is very important to click at the right time, and Welty agreed that she had the quality of capturing time at a right instant. In One Writer’s Beginning, a memoir by Welty which was published in 1984, she has explained that a photograph arrests a moment from passing away.
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This was referenced by a photo of a woman ironing at the back side of a post office.Įudora Welty won several award including the National Book Critics Circle Award, the Medal of Freedom and O.
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Moreover, her photography has served as a foundation for many short stories that she wrote, like Why I Live at the PO. At first, she limited herself to the area where she was born but gradually she became adventurous enough to try out new places for photography, such as Charleston, Yaddo, New York and New Orleans and then England and Ireland. Among the thousands of photographs taken by Welty, this book brought together 250 images.Īll her photos decipher her empathetic, artistic, and explorative sensibilities. Welty hence had the power to express herself clearly since she possessed the two ultimate talents that are needed to reflect one’s thoughts, ideas and observations – writing and photography. 99 photos are composed in the book under four categories, Saturday, Portraits, Sunday, and Workday.Īnother photo-book titled Eudora Welty Photographs published in 1989, gives an insight into the world of Welty’s work of art and records her extraordinary and distinctive vision. Along with images, she also wrote about her journey. She travelled around the state’s eighty-two counties for her project. A 1971 photographic book – One Time, One Place was a collection of pictures shot by Welty in the 1930s. Her photographs represent the poverty in rural areas of Mississippi and the impact of the painstaking economic depression. She took pictures of individuals coming from all socio-economic classes. Four years later, she was a publicity mediator at the Works Progress Administration and gathered stories, took interviews as well as photographed Mississippi’s everyday life.