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By Jean Haskell Speer

For greater than fifty years mountain-born Earl Palmer traveled the Southern Appalachians along with his digicam, recording his own imaginative and prescient of the mountain humans and their history. Over those yr he created, in numerous thousand images, a particular physique of labor that affirms a standard snapshot of Appalachia―a sector of significant common attractiveness inhabited by means of a self-sufficient humans whose lives are extraordinary for simplicity and harmony.

For this booklet, Jean Haskell Speer has chosen greater than one hundred twenty consultant images from Palmer's assortment and has written a biographical and demanding observation in line with large interviews with the photographer. Palmer's photos, Speer argues, are major cultural statements that depict no longer a lot a nation-state as a specific thought of Appalachia.

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