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Size | 6 feet of linear shelf space (approximately 2000 items) |
Abstract | Collection of photographer and cinematographer Rex Miller, focusing primarily on African American musicians, blues culture in the Mississippi Delta, and the conditions, culture, and lives of inmates and guards at Mississippi State Penitentiary. The materials relate to the creation of the documentary film I’m Walkin’: A Journey Through Parchman and the book and exhibit All the Blues Gone. Formats include: photographic materials (negatives, contact sheets, prints); audio (oral history interviews); video (production elements); papers (correspondence and writings by Parchman inmates, production files, transcripts, and notes), production files, transcripts, and notes. Born digital materials include hard drives and discs of production elements, including video, audio, and text. |
Creator | Miller, Rex (Cinematographer) |
Curatorial Unit | University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. Library. Southern Folklife Collection. |
Language | English |
Encoded by: Dawne Howard Lucas, June 2021
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New York native Rex Miller is a director, photographer and cinematographer of Portuguese, African, Indian, and Jewish descent. Miller's works include All The Blues Gone, a book and CD documenting Mississippi blues culture; the documentaries ALTHEA, SOMAY KU: A Uganda Tennis Story, Ashe '68, Behind These Walls, I’m Walkin’: A Journey Through Parchman, Private Violence and The Loving Story, and the series A Chef's Life and Road to Race Day.
As of 2021, Miller was based in Durham, N.C.
Back to TopCollection of Durham, N.C.-based photographer and cinematographer Rex Miller, focusing primarily on African American musicians, blues culture in the Mississippi Delta, and the conditions, culture, and lives of inmates and guards at Mississippi State Penitentiary. The materials relate to the creation of the documentary film I’m Walkin’: A Journey Through Parchman and the book and exhibit All the Blues Gone. Formats include: photographic materials (negatives, contact sheets, prints); audio (oral history interviews); video (production elements); papers (correspondence and writings by Parchman inmates, production files, transcripts, and notes), production files, transcripts, and notes. Born digital materials include hard drives and discs of production elements, including video, audio, and text.
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