The Appalachian Photographs of Earl Palmer

By Jean Haskell Speer and Jean Haskell

Book Overview

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 rep

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0813116953
• ISBN13: 9780813116952
• Release Date: January 1990
• Publisher: University Press of Kentucky
• Length: 176 Pages
• Weight: 1.60 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.7" x 7.3" x 10.4"
• Grade Range: Postsecondary and higher