Bell, Malcolm, 1913-2001

Malcolm Bell Jr. (1913-2001), photographer, historian, and bank president, was born in Savannah, Georgia, in 1913. In 1939, at the age of twenty-six, Bell and his wife, Muriel Barrow Bell, became involved with the Savannah Unit of the Georgia Writers' Project, a Works Progress Administration program, to interview and photograph coastal Georgia blacks who were of African descent. Under the leadership of Mary Granger, the Savannah Unit interviewed ca. one hundred thirty-four people in twenty locations. Malcolm and Muriel Bell served as the photographers. The results of this project were published in 1940 and entitled DRUMS AND SHADOWS: SURVIVAL STUDIES AMOUNG THE COASTAL GEORGIA NEGROES (Athens: University of Georgia Press). It was reprinted in 1986.

From the description of Drums and Shadows photograph collection, 1939. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 79463337

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