The Appalachian Photographs of Earl Palmer /

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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...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Haskell, Jean, 1947-
Other Authors: Palmer, Earl, 1905-
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:Inglés
Published: Lexington, Kentucky : University Press of Kentucky, 1990.
Series:Book collections on Project MUSE.
Subjects:
Palmer, Earl, > 1905-
Manners and customs.
Appalachians (People)
HISTORY > United States > 20th Century.
HISTORY > United States > State & Local > South (AL, AR, FL, GA, KY, LA, MS, NC, SC, TN, VA, WV)
Appalachians (People) > Pictorial works.
Southern Appalachian Region.
Appalaches (Sud) > Moeurs et coutumes > Ouvrages illustres.
Appalaches (Sud) > Ouvrages illustres.
Appalachian Region, Southern > Social life and customs > Pictorial works.
Appalachian Region, Southern > Pictorial works.
Pictorial works.
Electronic books.
Online Access:Texto completo
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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.
Physical Description:1 online resource (176 pages): color illustrations
ISBN:9780813149301

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