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The Inhabitants (Magill’s Survey of American Literature, Revised Edition)

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The Inhabitants, the first of Morris's volumes to combine photographs and prose, grew out of his preoccupation with the past. During the 1930's and 1940's, Morris began writing fiction using simple, compact visual cues to create “still” word pictures. After composing a number of such pictures, he concluded that he might actually photograph what he was describing in order more effectively to capture concrete detail and visible reality. What he was after was the look and feel of a specific time and place. To produce the look, he selected telling photographs from the many he...

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