Imes, Birney

Juke Joint. Photographs By Birney Imes. With an Introductory Essay By Richard Ford

      Jackson, MS: University Press of Mississippi, 1990. First Edition. Of an edition limited to 100 numbered copies and 26 lettered copies, signed by the author, Birney Imes and Richard Ford, this is letter E of the most desirable limitation. The lettered copies are specially mentioned on the signed colophon page. Oversized coffee-table format. Fine in the publisher's original printed slipcase. A brilliant collection of color photographs taken of juke joints throughout Mississippi during the 1980s. From the introduction by author Richard Ford: “ Something feels hidden in these brightly-wondrous photos, but nothing is...Birney Imes has noted that many of these buildings are gone now, moved out by time or by someone's timely idea, so that his photographs have become their only records...”