During a period of thirty-five years, from 1927 until 1962, a group of friends gathered to hunt, socialize, and savor good times in the vanishing southern wilderness. They convened at the Ten Point Deer Club in Issaquena County, the last wooded stronghold of the Mississippi Delta. Among the friends were P. K. and Florence Huffman, who lived at the camp until the woods were destroyed by developers and the U. S. Army Corps of Engineers. For more than three decades Florence Huffman photographed the land and the people who came to the camp. Her pictures, at once intimate, visually intriguing, and historically significant, record a world in which two powerful forces coexisted -- the relentless drive of progress and the persistent draw of nature. Few other photographers of her day chose to document hunting and fishing scenes, and her pictures testify to her eye for unique subjects and to her sympathetic view of both the characters of the camp and the natural world around her.

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