Photographers explore the South in High exhibition

ATLANTA (AP) — Atlanta’s High Museum of Art invited three photographers to present their views of the American South, and the results — including slices of urban life, rural portraits and eroding marshlands — will be on display starting this weekend.

The exhibition is part of the “Picturing the South” initiative established by the High in 1996. Since then the museum has commissioned a total of nine photographers — both established names and emerging artists — to shoot photos inspired by the region. The 76 prints will go on view Saturday alongside an exhibition from The Museum of Modern Art in New York called “Picturing New York.” A related exhibition, “Revisiting the South: Richard Misrach’s Cancer Alley,” is also on view.