CORY REYNOLDS | DATE 3/9/2017

Justin Kimball: Elegy

"I cannot tell from picture to picture in Justin Kimball’s Elegy whether it was the mill that failed, or whether it is the prison that sustains the small town," Stanley Wolukau-Wanambwa writes, "whether in this place the crisis owed from the plant, the river, the shale, or whether it suffers at the hands of some calculus located offshore. The pictures interweave a sense of weary anticipation for a future with a tone of deep lament for the scattered pieces of the past." It's a hauntingly timely book, which Kimball will sign tomorrow at the SPE National Conference 2017.