She dances on Jackson
By Vanessa Winship Mack, £35, hardback, 144 pages, ISBN 978-1-9079-4636-3
AMERICA’S an odd place. It’s so very large, for one thing, much larger than it’s really possible to understand from our crowded little isle. Culturally, in many ways it’s similar to us, but also vastly different. Vanessa Winship’s photography doesn’t provide any answers as to what makes America the way it is, but it isn’t trying to. It’s an exploration of small-town life in rural America, of how belonging to a place can affect and shape a person. In sultry black & white she depicts communities that have been worn down around their edges, littered with abandoned artefacts from better times. Winship is adept at both landscape and portrait, and both here show us a way…