Cullum’s October Notebook

Jerry Cullum, ARTS ATL, October 4, 2019

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Jerry Cullum's Notebook is a monthly survey that highlights some of the most notable art + design happenings in metro Atlanta. Cullum has written about the visual arts in Atlanta and beyond for decades.

  

Two retrospectives of photo portraits by poetically powerful documentarians offer a look at aspects of Atlanta's recent past that have, in our fast-moving times, already been eclipsed by subsequent events.

 

Remembering Marvin Rhodes, at Different Trains Gallery in Decatur (through October 19), includes a spectacular selection of photographs of Vietnam War veterans and the homeless. Rhodes (1949-2017) was a U.S. Marine. Both veterans and the homeless were represented in Rhodes' two books in the 1980s, alongside his series featuring Elvis impersonators.