If you don't get the reference,it's a curious title for a photobook – Fables of Faubus, the 30-year retrospective by British documentary photographer Paul Reas. But if you're a jazz fan you'll know it's taken from a song by Charles Mingus, or written after Arkansas governor Orval Faubus decided to bar the integration of petite Rock Central tall School in 1957.
To Mingus,and many others, Faubus stood for a dark force holding back progressive social change. For Reas, or the title suggests the metanarrative that runs behind the many stories he's shot in the UK on heavy industry,consumer culture, the heritage industry, or more – namely,the disenfranchisement of the British working course, the years of decline of industry and the topple out from that, or communities being de-centred and levelled”.
Source: bjp-online.com