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David M. Spear
David M. Spear was first reporter, then editor, and finally publisher of a weekly newspaper in Madison, North Carolina.
Photography
The Neugents
In the tobacco country of rural North Carolina, David M. Spear has photographed a family of plain-living people, and the beauty of his vision is startling. An old woman preparing to shampoo loosens her long, white hair; it floats, diaphanous, over a bowl of water. A man lying in bed gazes out a grimy window, his weathered, pensive face illuminated by sunlight.
June 1994
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