Larry Jene Fisher, Thad Sitton, C E Hunt

Big Thicket People

Larry Jene Fisher's Photographs of the Last Southern Frontier

• Gebundenes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

An irreplaceable collection of photographs that documents ways of living off the land that once were common across the entire South.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: University of Texas Press
• Revised edition
• Seitenzahl: 156
• Erscheinungstermin: 1. März 2008
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 259mm x 185mm x 17mm
• Gewicht: 599g
• ISBN-13: 9780292717824
• ISBN-10: 0292717822
• Artikelnr.: 23438093

Autorenporträt

By Thad Sitton and C.E. Hunt

Inhaltsangabe

1. Foreword (Maxine Johnston)
2. Preface and Acknowledgments
3. Chapter 1. Introduction: Plain Folks (Thad Sitton)
4. Chapter 2. The Photographic Legacy of the Renaissance Man of East Texas (C.
E. Hunt)
5. Chapter 3. Photo Sequences, With Introductory Essays
* Southerners in the Big Woods
* Porch Portraits
* Dogs
* Camps
* Deer Hunts
* Farming: From Hand to Mouth
* Syrup Mills
* Rooter Hogs and Southern Stock Raising
* Tie Makers
* Stave Makers
* Chimney Daubings
* Peckerwood Sawmills
* Major Logging Operations
* Turpentining
* Town Life
* Church Picnic at Pine Ridge
* Funerals and Golden Weddings
* Fundamentalist Church Services
* Dances and Other Amusements
* Lance Rosier and Family
6. Notes
7. Bibliography