Picture Taker: Photographs by Ken Elkins

by Rick Bragg

This collection of 100 haunting, sometimes humorous, but always deeply honest black-and-white photographs reveals the 42-year career of a master photographer and photojournalist.

Ken Elkins retired as chief photographer of the Anniston Star in 2000, and this selection of his work demonstrates his brilliant eye for finding and capturing images of rural southern lives and landscapes in all their difficulty, candor, and humor. These are...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0817314784
• ISBN13: 9780817314781
• Release Date: September 2005
• Publisher: University Alabama Press
• Length: 120 Pages
• Weight: 2.50 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.8" x 10.3" x 11.4"

Customer Reviews

Picture Taker: Photographs by Ken Elkins

Beautiful book. This man takes pictures like Rick Bragg (forword) writes. Each photograph is a story. Great work!

An exquisite portrait human pride, wit, and stoicism, amid the breathtaking Alabama countryside

Picture Taker is a collection of black-and-white photography by award-winning photojournalist Ken Elkins, celebrating the daily lives of small town and rural inhabitants of Alabama. Aside from a foreword by Pulitzer Prize- winning journalist Rick Bragg and an afterword, no text distracts the reader from the poignant images of salt-of-the- earth people. Even the one-sentence captions for the photographs are grouped together at the back of the book, so as not to distract from the compelling visual experience. An exquisite portrait human pride, wit, and stoicism, amid the breathtaking Alabama countryside.