Coal Hollow - Photographs and Oral Histories

Zusatztext "Ken Light is a social documentary photographer in the classic sense . . . he photographs people who otherwise would never be seen or heard." Informationen zum Autor Ken Light! a social documentary photographer! is Adjunct Professor and Director of the Center for Photography! Graduate School of Journalism! at the University of California! Berkeley. Among his books are Witness in Our Time: Working Lives of Documentary Photographers (2000)! Texas Death Row (1997)! and Delta Time (1995). Melanie Light is a writer and Executive Director of Fotovision.org. Klappentext "America's coal industry remains a laboratory test for 'free market' capitalism and government's efforts to control it. The people who live in its midst, as captured here in words and pictures by Ken and Melanie Light, are obstinate, wounded, witty, profane, and defiantly human."—John Sayles, Independent Filmmaker Zusammenfassung Presents arresting black and white photographs and oral histories that chronicle the legacy of coalmining in southern West Virginia. This book features a complex portrait of people locked into an intricate web of geography, history, and unfettered profiteering. Inhaltsverzeichnis Foreword Orville Schell Robert B. Reich Acknowledgments Introduction: Slag Melanie Light PHOTOGRAPHS Ken Light ORAL HISTORIES Melanie Light Preface: Field Notes A Short History Lesson Mountain Woman Retired Coal Miner Snake Handler Preacher with a Mission Return to the Mountains The Lost Generation Mayor of North Fork Local Coal Industries Owner Justice for West Virginia Supreme Court of Appeals Novelist and Political Activist

Product details

• Authors: Ken Light, Melanie Light, Light/Light
• Assisted by: Ken Light (Photographer), Ken Light (Photographs), Melanie Light (Photographs), Ken Light (Editor), Melanie Light (Editor), Robert Reich (Editor), Orville Schell (Editor), Robert Reich (Foreword), Orville Schell (Foreword)
• Publisher: University Of California Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 14.02.2006
• EAN: 9780520246546
• ISBN: 978-0-520-24654-6
• No. of pages: 151
• Series: Series in Contemporary Photography; Series in Contemporary Photogr; Series in Contemporary Photography
• Subject: Humanities, art, music > Art > Photography, film, video, TV