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Author Haskell, Jean, 1947-

Title The Appalachian photographs of Earl Palmer / Jean Haskell Speer
Published Lexington, Kentucky : University Press of Kentucky, ©1990

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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
Subject Palmer, Earl, 1905-
SUBJECT Palmer, Earl, 1905- fast
Subject Appalachians (People) -- Pictorial works
HISTORY -- United States -- State & Local -- South (AL, AR, FL, GA, KY, LA, MS, NC, SC, TN, VA, WV)
HISTORY -- United States -- 20th Century.
Appalachians (People)
Manners and customs
SUBJECT Appalachian Region, Southern -- Pictorial works
Appalachian Region, Southern -- Social life and customs -- Pictorial works
Subject Southern Appalachian Region
Genre/Form Pictorial works
Form Electronic book
Author Palmer, Earl, 1905-
ISBN 9780813149301
0813149304