W panel focuses on treasure trove of vintage Mississippi photographs

COLUMBUS, Miss.-- O.N. Pruitt for four decades was the “picture man” for northeast Mississippi and neighboring Alabama, making photographs both sublime and tragic during an era of racial segregation from 1920-1960. Those photographs, exhibited now at the Columbus Arts Council, resonate still today and will be the subject of an April 12 panel of five visual scholars and image-makers at Mississippi University for Women.