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New Edition of Professor’s Book Released

CONWAY, Ark. (September 30, 2014) – A new edition of Hendrix art professor Maxine Payne’s book “Making Pictures: Three for a Dime” is available now through Dust-to-Digital.

The book, available here, features photographs taken by the Massengill family, who operated a mobile photo booth business in 1930s rural Arkansas, and collected by Payne. 

The Massengill family prints and photo albums “illuminate a sliver of the Depression-era South previously unseen by the public,” according to the Atlanta, Ga. publisher’s website. The new volume includes introductions by Payne and curator Phillip March Jones, short remembrances from Lance and Evelyn Massengill, and a transcribed diary that recounts the difficulties and successes of the family business in short, powerful bursts.    

Read more about Payne and her work here.

Founded in 1876, Hendrix College is a national leader in engaged liberal arts and sciences education. This year, Hendrix was named the country’s #1 “Up and Coming” liberal arts college and #8 in the nation for “Best Undergraduate Teaching” by U.S. News and World Report.  Hendrix is featured in the 2015 Fiske Guide to Colleges, Forbes magazine's list of America's Top Colleges, the 2014 Princeton Review’s The Best 378 Colleges, and the latest edition of Colleges That Change Lives: 40 Schools That Will Change the Way You Think about Colleges. Hendrix has been affiliated with the United Methodist Church since 1884. For more information, visit www.hendrix.edu