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Author | : Jean Haskell Speer |
Publisher | : University Press of Kentucky |
Total Pages | : 176 |
Release | : 2014-07-11 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 0813149304 |
Download The Appalachian Photographs of Earl Palmer Book in PDF, ePub and Kindle
For more than fifty years mountain-born Earl Palmer traveled the Southern Appalachians with his camera, recording his personal vision of the mountain people and their heritage. Over these year he created, in several thousand photographs, a distinctive body of work that affirms a traditional image of Appalachia -- a region of great natural beauty inhabited by a self-sufficient people whose lives are notable for simplicity and harmony. For this book, Jean Haskell Speer has selected more than 120 representative photographs from Palmer's collection and has written a biographical and critical commentary based on extensive interviews with the photographer. Palmer's photographs, Speer argues, are significant cultural statements that depict not so much a geographical region as a particular idea of Appalachia.
Author | : Tim Barnwell |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 160 |
Release | : 2021-05 |
Genre | : |
ISBN | : 9780990573173 |
Download The Face of Appalachia Book in PDF, ePub and Kindle
The Face of Appalachia: Portraits from the Mountain Farm is the culmination of over twenty years of work by acclaimed photographer Tim Barnwell. Combining beautiful landscapes with tender portraits, his remarkable black-and-white images provide a stunning record of a vanishing way of life on the remote mountain farms of rural Appalachia. Over one hundred photographs, printed here in elegant duotone reproductions, are combined with conversations with the subjects, to give us an insight into the daily lives, activities, and dreams of the hard working, proud, and resourceful men and women of this unique area of our country. Transcending their geographical origins, these photographs give us a look at how our forefathers lived, for generations, with seemingly little change, in the decades before modern industry, roads, and technology transformed the country from an agrarian to an industrial economy and then to the information age we live in today. The rugged and remote mountains of the southern Appalachian region have served to isolate and preserve the last vestiges of life as it once was throughout rural America. By documenting this disappearing way of life, Mr. Barnwell has captured the essence, beauty, and rugged character of the rural landscape and its people, for this and future generations.
Author | : Shelby Lee Adams |
Publisher | : Univ. Press of Mississippi |
Total Pages | : 128 |
Release | : 2003-01-01 |
Genre | : Appalachian Region, Southern |
ISBN | : 9781617033483 |
Download Appalachian lives Book in PDF, ePub and Kindle
A collection of eighty photographs highlights the real Appalachia, distinguishing it from the popular mythology surrounding this impoverished region. By the author of Appalachian Portraits and Appalachian Legacy. (Social Science)
Author | : Carol M. Highsmith |
Publisher | : Crescent |
Total Pages | : 136 |
Release | : 1999 |
Genre | : Photography |
ISBN | : |
Download The Appalachian Trail Book in PDF, ePub and Kindle
Appalachian Trail photographic tour.
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Publisher | : Turner Publishing Company |
Total Pages | : 268 |
Release | : 2010-02-01 |
Genre | : Photography |
ISBN | : 1618585975 |
Download Historic Photos of Appalachia Book in PDF, ePub and Kindle
Appalachia: The place and its people have long inspired a special fascination among travelers and commentators. The rugged, ecologically rich mountains, at once forbidding and inviting, have provided a place of retreat and exploration for lovers of natural beauty and outdoor adventure, while the region’s resources have long lured both capitalists intent on creating wealth and regular folks just looking for a steady wage. The inhabitants native to the region have often been held up as pure, strong, and self-sufficient on the one hand, and derided as primitive, backward, and exotic, on the other.Not quite south or north, east or west, the region continues to defy easy classification. Yet it emerges in Historic Photos of Appalachia as both distinct and as familiarly American. The nearly 200 photographs included here portray the region’s land and people in all their distinctive and sometimes surprising specificity—including views of towns, houses, and farms; families at home and on the job; railroads, mining, and logging; and beautiful streams and mountain landscapes.
Author | : Wendy Ewald |
Publisher | : Mack Publishing Company |
Total Pages | : 0 |
Release | : 2020 |
Genre | : Appalachian Region, Southern |
ISBN | : 9781912339891 |
Download Portraits and Dreams Book in PDF, ePub and Kindle
This expanded edition of Wendy Ewald's now-rare book, first published in 1985, offers a view of the rural south over the past thirty five years. It includes pictures and stories by eight of Ewald's students, now grownups. Their visions, old and new, illuminate the present and the past.
Author | : Anthony Harkins |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 0 |
Release | : 2019 |
Genre | : Appalachian Region |
ISBN | : 9781946684790 |
Download Appalachian Reckoning Book in PDF, ePub and Kindle
In Hillbilly elegy, J.D. Vance described how his family moved from poverty to an upwardly mobile clan while navigating the collective demons of the past. The book has come to define Appalachia for much of the nation. This collection of essays is a retort, at turns rigorous, critical, angry, and hopeful, to the long shadow cast over the region and its imagining. But it also moves beyond Vance's book to allow Appalachians to tell their own diverse and complex stories of a place that is at once culturally rich and economically distressed, unique and typically American. -- adapted from back cover
Author | : Shelby Lee Adams |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 140 |
Release | : 1998 |
Genre | : Biography & Autobiography |
ISBN | : 9781578060498 |
Download Appalachian Legacy Book in PDF, ePub and Kindle
Photographs taken 1973-1997 in Perry, Letcher, Knott, Leslie, Floyd, and Breathitt Counties, Kentucky.
Author | : |
Publisher | : David R. Godine Publisher |
Total Pages | : 0 |
Release | : 2014 |
Genre | : Business & Economics |
ISBN | : 9781567925081 |
Download Appalachia USA Book in PDF, ePub and Kindle
Despite the promise of alternative energy, coal still powers most of our power plants and steel mills. The story of its extraction, and of the people who live, work, suffer, and endure in West Virginia, Kentucky, and Pennsylvania, has been a source of fascination bordering on obsession for the photographer Builder Levy. For four decades, he has been witness to an industry that has changed from miners working underground with picks and shovels to draglines, mechanical earth movers that can tear apart mountain summits to expose veins of coal in massive, and massively destructive, quantities. He has witnessed strikes and picket lines, desperation and rage, hope and dignity, and the predictable natural disasters (and disasters waiting to happen) that are part of the territory.
Author | : Ralph E. Lentz II |
Publisher | : McFarland |
Total Pages | : 180 |
Release | : 2000-12-29 |
Genre | : Social Science |
ISBN | : 9780786409273 |
Download W.R. Trivett, Appalachian Pictureman Book in PDF, ePub and Kindle
W.R. Trivett (1884-1966), a farmer born in Watauga County, North Carolina, was also a self-taught professional photographer who left behind an invaluable collection of more than 400 glass plate negatives taken between 1907 and the late 1940s in the Beech Mountain community of neighboring Avery County. Along with the photographs (105 are reproduced herein), a collection of Trivett's personal papers survive, revealing very enlightening information about his life in the mountains. This work--the fourth in McFarland's continuing series of Contributions to Southern Appalachian Studies--carefully examines Trivett's life and photographs, comparing his work to that of contemporary outside photographers who often produced stereotypical images of mountain people. Through Trivett's images we can, by contrast, see the everyday reality for most people in rural Appalachia.