Hank and Dewey, Washington County, Mississippi, 1992

Jane Rule Burdine

Archival pigment print

H. 9; W. 13½" image size
H. 15¾; W. 19¾" framed

About the Artist

Jane Rule Burdine has photographed the people and landscapes of Mississippi and beyond for more than 40 years. She was raised in Greenville, Mississippi, but purchased a farm in Taylor, Mississippi, in 1983. During the Southern writing renaissance of the 80s and 90s in Oxford, her home became a central hub for bohemian life. Throughout the years, Jane Rule has hosted the famous and infamous - world renowned actors, musicians, artists and writers, mixed with farmers, hunters, outlaws, bootleggers, liars, and every imaginable storyteller.

"There is a vigor and honesty in her work not seen in American photography in many years. Once called by the writer Barry Hannah the 'Gertrude Stein of the Mississippi,' Burdine might be the most famous unknown artist in the South. Yet her talent reaches far beyond any region. Through the quotidian, she arrives at the universal, the uncanny, the beautifully strange."

- Michael Bible, author

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