The Appalachian photographs of Earl Palmer [electronic resource] / Jean Haskell Speer.
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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| Format: | Electronic eBook |
| Language: | English |
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Lexington, Kentucky :
University Press of Kentucky,
©1990.
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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. |
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| Physical Description: | 1 online resource (177 pages) : color illustrations |
| Bibliography: | Includes bibliographical references. |
| ISBN: | 9780813149301 0813149304 |