Description |
1 online resource (177 pages) : color illustrations |
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 |
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 |
Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references |
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Palmer, Earl, 1905-
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SUBJECT |
Palmer, Earl, 1905- fast |
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Appalachians (People) -- Pictorial works
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HISTORY -- United States -- State & Local -- South (AL, AR, FL, GA, KY, LA, MS, NC, SC, TN, VA, WV)
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HISTORY -- United States -- 20th Century.
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Appalachians (People)
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Manners and customs
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Appalachian Region, Southern -- Pictorial works
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Appalachian Region, Southern -- Social life and customs -- Pictorial works
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Southern Appalachian Region
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Genre/Form |
Pictorial works
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Form |
Electronic book
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Author |
Palmer, Earl, 1905-
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ISBN |
9780813149301 |
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0813149304 |
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