# Ghostlight - Hardcover

by **Keith Carter** (Author)

**A collection of otherworldly photographs of Southern wetlands featuring an original ghost story.**

Southern wetlands, with their moss-draped trees and dark water obscuring mysteries below, are eerily beautiful places, home to ghost stories and haunting, ethereal light. The newest collection from award-winning photographer Keith Carter, _Ghostlight_ captures the otherwordly spirits of swamps, marshes, bogs, baygalls, bayous, and fens in more than a hundred photographs.

From Ossabaw Island, Georgia, to his home ground of East Texas, Carter seeks "the secretive and mysterious" of this often-overlooked landscape: wisps of fog drifting between tree branches; faceless figures contemplating a bog; owls staring directly at the camera lens; infinite paths leading to unknown parts. Similarly, spectral images are evoked in the original short story that opens this book. Ghostlight, writes best-selling author Bret Anthony Johnston, "hovers, darts, disappears. It can be as mean as a cottonmouth, as mischievous aes a child. The closer you get, the farther the light recedes." A masterpiece of "Bayou Gothic," _Ghostlight_ challenges our perceptions and invites us to experience the beauty of this elusive world.

### Author Biography

Keith Carter teaches photography at Lamar University, where he is a Regents Professor and holds the Endowed Walles Chair of Visual and Performing Arts. He is the author of twelve previous books, including several with UT Press: _From Uncertain to Blue, Ezekiel's Horse, Fireflies_ and a retrospective, _Keith Carter: Fifty Years._

Bret Anthony Johnston is the internationally best-selling author of _Remember Me Like This_ and _Corpus Christi: Stories_. He is the director of the Michener Center for Writers at the University of Texas.

**Number of Pages:** 184

**Dimensions:** 0.63 x 12.28 x 12.28 IN

**Publication Date:** September 05, 2023

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