The Appalachian Photographs of Earl Palmer [electronic resource] / Jean Haskell Speer.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Haskell, Jean, 1947-

Contributor:

Palmer, Earl, 1905-

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Appalachians (People)--Pictorial works.

Appalachians (People).

Appalachian Region, Southern--Social life and customs--Pictorial works.

Appalachian Region, Southern.

Appalachian Region, Southern--Pictorial works.

Palmer, Earl, 1905-.

Palmer, Earl.

Genre:

Electronic books.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (177 p.)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Lexington, Kentucky : The University Press of Kentucky, 1990.

Summary:

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 commen

Contents:

Cover; Title; Copyright; Contents; Preface; Introduction; Eternal Mountaineer; Portraits; Country Roads; Making a Home in the Mountains; Making a Living; Made by Hand; Mountain Rituals; Bibliography; Selected Publications by Earl Palmer

Notes:

"First published by Harmanson, Publisher 1936."

"Selected publications by Earl Palmer": p. [127]-128.

Includes bibliographical references (p. [124]-126).

Description based on print version record.

ISBN:

0-8131-4930-4

OCLC:

900344473