4 Ways of Looking at Flags

Star-spangled symbols, from anonymous art in Mississippi to a digital exhibit at Ellis Island.
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1. As folk art
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Photographed by Susana Raab

1. As folk art
Photographer Susana Raab was heading down Highway 61 near Greenville, Mississippi, when she glimpsed an arresting image of the Stars and Stripes in a lonely field. "I was struck by the idea that someone would go to the trouble to construct this flag out of plastic Dixie cups, and here it was in Dixieland," says Raab. Anonymous art, created from the stuff at hand, is plentiful in the Deep South, says Lee Kogan, curator of the American Folk Art Museum. And unlike in many other parts of the country, the volume is undiminished. "People held on to those traditions longer," Kogan says. And, apparently, to their Dixie cups.
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