https://coveringphotography.bc.edu/files/original/3/5960/BourkeWhite-Kennedy72.jpg eea194d9eda0a77a9475ae25860df3ec Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource Covering Photography Main Collection Still Image A static visual representation. Examples include paintings, drawings, graphic designs, plans and maps. Recommended best practice is to assign the type Text to images of textual materials. Author Author of the book upon which the photograph appears Kennedy, William Photograph Title Title of photograph Tupelo, Mississippi Book Genre Novel Photo Genre Genre of Photograph Documentry Photographer Photographer Bourke-White, Margaret Designer Designer of book cover Stuart, Neil Notes Notes associated with the item One would assume that the shabby, tough, proud-looking individual on the cover of William Kennedy's 'Ironweed' represents Francis Phelan, former baseball player turned vagabond, and the novels main character. 'Ironweed' is the third book in Kennedy's 'Albany' trilogy, and the story takes place in that city. As if to drive the point home, the Phelan image may also be found, less prominently, on the cover of Kennedy's non-fiction work, 'O Albany'. In fact, the cover image is a screened and flipped (horizontally from the original) version of a photograph from 'You Have Seen Their Faces", the 1937 text and image collaboration between Margaret Bourke-White and Erskine Caldwell. The title under Bourke-White's photo is 'Tupelo, Mississippi', and it is followed by the quotation: "There were plenty of people who couldn't get a living out of a farm long before the Government heard about it". The quote was made, presumably, by the picture's subject, but one never knows with Bourke-White and Caldwell, who had a tendency toward poetic license. Be that as it may, it is our inclination as humans to put a face to a name; for those who have, for example, only seen the film version of 'Ironweed', Francis Phelan may forever have the face of Jack Nicholson. For readers of this popular Penguin edition, he is Bourke-White's anonymous Mississippi farmer. Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Publisher An entity responsible for making the resource available Penguin Date A point or period of time associated with an event in the lifecycle of the resource 1987 Relation A related resource Source A related resource from which the described resource is derived Title A name given to the resource Ironweed