Coal Hollow : photographs and oral histories
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Coal Hollow : photographs and oral histories
（Series in contemporary photography, [4]）
University of California Press, c2006
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"Published in association with the Graduate School of Journalism, Center for Photography, University of California, Berkeley."
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内容説明・目次
内容説明
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. This remarkable book presents arresting black and white photographs and powerful oral histories that chronicle the legacy of coalmining in southern West Virginia. 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. 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.
目次
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
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