O. N. Pruitt's Possum Town Michael Pearlman although fundamentally negative

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O. N. Pruitt's Possum Town Michael Pearlman although fundamentally negativePhotographer O. N. Pruitt (1891 1967) was for some forty years the de facto documentarian of Lowndes County, Mississippi, and its county seat, Columbus known to locals as "Possum Town." His body of work recalls many FSA photographers, but Pruitt was not an outsider with an agenda; he was a community member with intimate knowledge of the town and its residents. He photographed his fellow White citizens and Black ones as well, in circumstances ranging