The Appalachian Photographs of Earl Palmer

Jean Haskell Speer (Autor)

Buch | Hardcover

176 Seiten

1990
The University Press of Kentucky (Verlag)
978-0-8131-1695-2 (ISBN)

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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.

Jean Haskell Speer is emerita director of the Appalachian Studies Program at Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University.

Zusatzinfo	114 b/w photographs
Verlagsort	Lexington
Sprache	englisch
Maße	184 x 260 mm
Themenwelt	Kunst / Musik / Theater ► Fotokunst
ISBN-10	0-8131-1695-3 / 0813116953
ISBN-13	978-0-8131-1695-2 / 9780813116952
Zustand	Neuware