Photos Day Or Night: How One Photographer Documented The Segregated South
Evident in the new book, "Photos Day or Night: The Archive of Hugh Mangum," is a playfulness that was unlike the work of any other photographer from the turn of the 20th century.
Monumental shifts were occurring in America during the time photographer Hugh Mangum was working in North Carolina and the Virginias. It was the height of the Jim Crow era, when the nation was starting to see laws separating whites from blacks. But as a businessman who needed to support his family, Mangum didn't discriminate between clientele, therefore leaving behind an archive that tells a different story of the segregated South at the turn of the 20th century.
The first time I looked at Mangum's photographs was in the fall of 2010, eight years before I would
