In this Book
- The Appalachian Photographs of Earl Palmer
- Book
- 2014
- Published by: The University Press of Kentucky
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 commentary based on extensive interviews with the photographer. Palmer's photographs, Speer argues, are significant cultural statements that depict not so much a geographical region as a particular idea of Appalachia.
Table of Contents
- Title Page, Copyright Page
- pp. i-iv
- Introduction
- pp. xi-2
- Eternal Mountaineer
- pp. 3-16
- Country Roads
- pp. 29-40
- Making a Home in the Mountains
- pp. 41-52
- Making a Living
- pp. 53-78
- Made by Hand
- pp. 79-102
- Mountain Rituals
- pp. 103-123
- Bibliography
- pp. 124-126
- Selected Publications by Earl Palmer
- pp. 127-128