Episode No. 620 of The Modern Art Notes Podcast features artists Stacy Kranitz and Kristine Potter.

Kranitz and Potter are included in “A Long Arc: Photography and the American South since 1845” at the High Museum of Art, Atlanta. The exhibition considers the South as a forger of American identity and examines how Southern photographers have contributed to both the advance of their medium, and the US project. “A Long Arc” was curated by Gregory J. Harris and Sarah Kennel, and will be on view through January 14, 2024 before traveling to the Addison Gallery of American Art, Andover, Mass., and to the Virginia Museum of Fine Arts, Richmond. The catalogue was published by Aperture. Bookshop and Amazon offer it for about $70.

Kranitz’s work, primarily made in the southern Appalachian Mountains, presents the complexity and instability of a rugged region on which industry has preyed. Her work is in the collection of museums such as the Harvard Art Museums and the Museum of Fine Arts, Houston. Her 2022 book As it Was Give(n) to Me was published by Twin Palms and was shortlisted for a Paris Photo-Aperture First Photobook Award. Bookshop and Amazon offer it for about $75-80.

For images of Kranitz’s work discussed on the program presented by series or project, please see:

• As it Was Give(n) to Me;
• From the Study on Post Pubescent Manhood;
• Fulcrum of Malice; and
• Target Unknown.

Aperture has just published Potter’s second monograph, Dark Waters. The book extends Potter’s interest in using the US landscape as an ideological site by exploring how nineteenth and twentieth-century ‘murder ballads’ marry site to misogynistic violence. In May 2024, the work will be exhibited at The Momentary, Bentonville, Ark. Bookshop and Amazon offer Dark Waters for about $43-61.

• For images from Dark Waters, see this section of Potter’s website.
• For images from Manifest, see here.

Instagram: Stacy Kranitz, Kristine Potter, Tyler Green.

Air date: September 21, 2023.