NARRATOR:

Wright Morris was, in many ways, an artist ahead of his time—a published photographer who was also an award-winning writer. For Morris, these images, spare and seemingly uninhabited, called forth a people who had disappeared. He evoked these people in a rich and textured prose. Morris’s two pioneering photo-text books, The Inhabitants and The Home Place, predated the rise of the Web by fifty years. But he lived to see computers effortlessly fuse image, text, and sound, and to proclaim:

MORRIS:

If anyone was ever invented for this ridiculous piece of machinery, I’m the one.