What emerges is a complex portrait of people locked into an intricate web of geography, history, and unfettered profiteering.In Light's poignant images and in their own distinctive voices the residents of Coal Hollow - a fictional composite of the communities the Lights surveyed - reveal how the intersection of mountain culture and the greed of the coal companies produced the most powerful economy in the world yet brought crushing poverty to a region of once-proud people. In this stunning monograph, the husband-and-wife duo (Coal Hollow) present a searing indictment of industrial. Ken and Melanie Light traveled hundreds of miles through rugged, isolated terrain recording the stories of a range of people whose lives were shaped by coal: retired miners, men and women who have been jobless their entire lives, a contemporary coal baron, a justice of the State Supreme Court of West Virginia, a writer who bravely ran for governor on a third party ticket, and people who returned to the hills when their lives failed elsewhere. Heyday, 40 (176p) ISBN 978-1-59714-172-7. dry for several weeks, during which light hoeing cleared the fields. This remarkable book presents arresting black and white photographs and powerful oral histories that chronicle the legacy of coalmining in southern West Virginia. The Archaeology of Tar and Charcoal Kilns in Georgia and Future Directions 120. Valley of Shadows and Dreams book Ken Light is a documentary photographer and professor at the Center for.
Coal is still king in much of Appalachia, yet the heritage and history of the people who enabled the United States to become an economic superpower in the Industrial age are slipping away. PAN in conversation with Ken and Melanie Light.
0 kommentar(er)
