The Appalachian photographs of Earl Palmer

摘要: For more than fifty years mountain-born Earl Palmer traveled the Southern Appalachians with his camera, recording personal vision of mountain people and their heritage. Over these year he created, in several thousand photographs, a distinctive body work that affirms traditional image Appalachia -- region great natural beauty inhabited by self-sufficient whose lives are notable for simplicity harmony. this book, Jean Haskell Speer has selected 120 representative photographs from Palmer's collection written biographical critical commentary based on extensive interviews photographer. argues, significant cultural statements depict not so much geographical as particular idea Appalachia.