Perique: Photographs by Charles Martin

Perique, prized by connoisseurs as the strongest and most flavorful of tobacco varietals, is cultivated only one place on earth: a thirty-square-mile tract of land in St. James Parish, Louisiana. Harvested, bunched, and stemmed by hand, the tobacco is pressure-cured for a year in whiskey barrels. The labor-intensive cultivation process dates to the early 19th century; its rituals have descended as occupational folklore through a small group of St. James Parish families.
Photographer Charles Martin (b. 1961) spent eight years documenting the tradition of his forebears. Vulnerability lends urgency to this study: only a handful of working farms remain dedicated to perique cultivation, and fewer and fewer young people embrace the agricultural lifestyle of their parents and grandparents.

Détails du produit

• Auteurs: Charles Martin
• Edition: Historic New Orleans Collection,U.S.
• Langues: Anglais
• Format d'édition: Livre Relié
• Sortie: 01.11.2012
• EAN: 9780917860621
• ISBN: 978-0-917860-62-1
• Pages: 104
• Catégories: Sciences humaines, art, musique > Art > Photographie, cinéma, vidéo, TV; Sciences naturelles, médecine, informatique, technique > Biologie > Agriculture, horticulture; sylviculture, pisciculture, alimentation; Ackerbau und landwirtschaftliche Erzeugnisse, PHOTOGRAPHY / Individual Photographers / General, Technology & Industrial Arts, TECHNOLOGY & ENGINEERING / Agriculture / Agronomy / Crop Science