Appalachian Collection

Contemporary Documentary Photography in Appalachia


Scope

This Pathfinder is designed as an introduction to contemporary documentary photography and its portrayal of human subjects within the Appalachian region. This compilation is limited to post-1970 photographic work held by the W.L. Eury collection at Appalachian State University.

 

A Good Introduction to This Topic Can be Found in:

Ewald, Wendy. Appalachia: A Self Portrait . Frankfort, KY: Gnomon Press for Appalshop, 1979. ASU App Coll Stack F217.A65 A63

McNeil, W.K. Appalachian Images in Folk and Popular Culture . 2 nd ed. Knoxville, TN: The University of Tennessee Press, 1995 ASU App Coll F217. A65 A656 1995


Common Library of Congress Subject Headings:

Highly Relevant

  • Appalachians (People) -- Appalachian Region, Southern -- Pictorial works
  • Appalachians (People) -- Kentucky -- Pictorial works
  • Appalachians (People) -- Pictorial works
  • Appalachian Mountains -- Pictorial works
  • Appalachian Region, Southern -- Biography -- Pictorial works
  • Appalachian Region, Southern -- Pictorial works
  • Appalachian Region, Southern -- Social life and customs -- Pictorial works
  • Appalachian Region, Southern -- Social life and customs -- Miscellanea
  • Appalachian Region, Southern -- Pictorial works
  • Appalachian Region, Southern -- Popular Culture
  • Additional Specific Subject Headings:
  • Bluegrass musicians -- portraits
  • Country Life --Appalachian Region
  • Documentary Photography -- North Carolina -- Madison County
  • Documentary photography -- United States
  • Gatlinburg (TN) -- Biography -- Portraits
  • Great Smoky Mountains Region (NC and TN) -- Biography --Portraits
  • Kentucky -- Biography -- Portraits
  • Kentucky -- history -- pictorial works
  • Kentucky -- Pictorial works
  • Kentucky -- Social life and customs
  • Photojournalism -- United States
  • Sevier County (TN) -- Biography -- Portraits
  • Tennessee -- Social life and customs -- Pictorial works
  • Tobacco farmers -- North Carolina -- Madison County -- Social life and customs
  • West Virginia -- Pictoral works

 

Frequently Used Library of Congress Call Numbers and Ranges:

  • F217
  • F217. A65
  • TR 23
  • TR 647
  • TR 820.5

 

Frequently Mentioned Books:

Adams, Shelby Lee. Appalachian Legacy . Jackson, MS: University Press of Mississippi, 1998 ASU App Coll F217.A65 A24 1998

Adams, Shelby Lee. Appalachian Lives . Jackson, MS: University Press of Mississippi, 2003. ASU App Coll. Oversize. F217.A65 A25 2003

Adams, Shelby Lee. Appalachian Portraits . Jackson, MS: University Press of Mississippi, 1993. ASU App Coll Stack. F217.A65 A23 1993

Amberg, Rob. Sodom Laurel Album . Chapel Hill, NC: University of North Carolina Press in association with the Center for Documentary Studies, 2002. ASU App Coll Stack TR820.5.A468 2002

Barnwell, Tim. The Face of Appalachia: Portraits from the Mountain Farm . New York, NY: W.W. Norton & Company, 2003. ASU App Coll F17.A65 B38 2003

 


Other Relevant Books:

Adams, Lyn. Time Was: An Eastern Kentucky Album . Pippa Passes, KY: Knott County Bicentennial Committee, Inc. and Alice Lloyd College, 1976. ASU App Coll Stack TR650.T5 A3

Alvey, R. Gerald. Dulcimer Maker: The Craft of Homer Ledford. Lexington, KY University Press of Kentucky, 2003 ASU App Coll ML424.L4A752003

Ball, Randy Neil . Time Passages. Rogersville, TN: Appalachian Images Publishing, 1992 App Coll F217. A65 B355 1992

Bial, Raymond. Mist Over the Mountains: Appalachia and Its People . Boston, MA: Houghton Mifflin Company. ASU App Coll F217.A65 B53 1997

Buchanan, Paul. The Picture Man . Chapel Hill, NC: University of North Carolina Press, 1993. ASU App Coll F255.B86 1993

Catledge, Oraien E. Cabbagetown . Austin, TX: University of Texas Press, 1985 ASU App Coll Ovsz TR820.5.C38 1985

Clark, Joe. Tennessee Hill Folk . Photos and captions by Joe Clark. Nashville, TN: Vanderbilt University Press, 1972. ASU App Coll Oversize F210.C53 1972.

Clark, Joe. Up the Hollow From Lynchburg . New York, NY: McGraw-Hill, 1975 ASU App Coll F443.M83 C55

Dotter, Earl . In Mine and Mill . New York, NY: Pilgrim Press, 1979 ASU App Coll CLO TR647.D6

Ewald, Wendy. Portraits and Dreams: Photographs and Stories by Children of the Appalachians. New York, NY: Writers and Readers Publications, Inc. 1985 ASU App Coll TR23.2.E93 1985

Fairweather, Sharon Stapleton. Women's Work: Carrying the Culture. Boone, NC: Southern Appalachian Historical Association, 1991 ASU App Coll OVSZ NX510.N8F34 1991

Fleischhauer, Carl. Bluegrass Odyssey: A Documentary in Pictures and Words 1966-86. Urbana, IL: University of Illinois Press, 2001 ASU App Coll Ovsz ML3520.F6 2001

Grundy, Pamela. Ph Elkins, Ken. You Always Think of Home: A Portrait of Clay County , Alabama . Athens, GA: University of Georgia Press, 1991 ASU App Coll F332.C62G781991

Isbell, Robert. Ph Arthur Tilley. The Keepers: Mountain Folk Holding on to Old Skills and Talents . Winston-Salem, NC: John F. Blair, 1999 ASU App Coll NX506. I82 1999

Jeffers, Jack. Appalachian Byways: A Photographic Documentary . Bassett, VA: Bassette Printing Corporation, 1984. ASU App Coll F217.B6J38 1984

Johnson, Becky . Inside Bluegrass: 20 Years of Bluegrass Photography . Madison, NC: Empire Publications, 1998 ASU App Coll ML3520.J64 1998

Jones, Loyal. Appalachian Values . Ashland, KY: The Jesse Stuart Foundation, 1994 App Coll F217.A65 J66 1994

Joslin, Michael. Mountain People, Places and Ways: A Southern Appalachian Sampler. Johnson City, TN: Overmountain Press, 1991 ASU App Coll F261.J68 1991

Kennedy, Rory. American Hollow . Boston, MA: Bulfinch Press, 1999. ASU App Coll Oversize. TR820.5.K46 1999

Lauterer, Jock. Hogwild: A Back-to-the-Land Saga . Boone, NC: Appalachian Consortium Press, 1993 ASU App Coll Stack F262.R9L38 1993

Lauterer, Jock . Runnin' on Rims: Appalachian Profiles . Chapel Hill, NC: Algonquin Books of Chapel Hill, 1986 ASU App Coll Ovsz F261.L38 1986

Levy, Builder . The Life of the Appalachian Coal Miner . New York, NY: Levy, 1976 HD8039.M62L491976

McCauley, Deborah Vansau. Laura Porter, Patricia Parker Brunner, Warren Brunner. Mountain Holiness: A Photographic Narrative . Knoxville, TN: University of Tennessee Press, 2003 ASU App Coll BR1644.5.U6M38 2003

Murray, Kenneth. Down to Earth: People of Appalachia . Boone, NC: Appalachian Consortium Press, 1974. ASU App Coll Stack F217.A65 M87

Murray, Kenneth. A Portrait of Appalachia . Boone, NC: Appalachian Consortium Press, 1985. ASU App Coll Stack F217.A65 M87 1985

Russell, Gladys Trentham. Smoky Mountain Family Album. Alcoa, TN: Russell Publishing Company, 1984. ASU App Coll Oversize. F443.G7R78 1984

Smith, Micheal. You're Not From Around Here: Photographs of East Tennessee . Santa Fe, NM: Center for American Places in association with Columbia College Chicago, 2004 ASU App Coll F442.1.S6552004

Venable, Sam. Ph Efird, Paul. Mountain Hands: A Portrait of Southern Appalachia . Knoxville, TN: University of Tennessee Press, 2000 ASU App Coll TT23.2.V45.2000

Witt, Matt. In Our Blood: Four Coal Mining Families. New Market, TN: Highlander Research and Education Center, 1979 ASU App Coll HD8039.M62 U6840

Zimmerman, Peter Coats. Tennessee Music: It's People and Places . San Francisco, CA: Miller Freeman Books, 1998 ASU App Coll Stack ML200.7.T3Z5 1998

 

Guides, Encyclopedias and Exhibition Catalogs:

Amber, Rob. "Glimpses of the Rural Carolinas." Charlotte, NC: Spirit Square Center for the Arts, 1992. Catalog of four exhibitions held at Spirit Square Center for the Arts between August 20 and October 21,1992

Eiler, Lyntha Scott, ed. "Blue Ridge Harvest: A Region's Folklife in Photographs." Washington DC: The American Folklife Center, 1981 ASU App Coll F217.B6B58

West, Carroll Van. Tennessee Encyclopedia of History and Culture. Nashville, TN: Rutledge Hill Press, 1998. (138) AppColl F 436.T525 1998

Williams, Jonathan. "Black Mountain People Mean as they can Be - They Uses Gunpowder Just to Sweeten Their Tea." Asheville, NC: Captain's Bookshelf, 1995 ASU App Coll CLO TR680.W53 1995


Bibliographies:

Appalachian Bibliography . Morgantown, WV: West Virginia University Library, 1980. (628-632). ASU App Coll Z1251.A7A61980

Haskell, Jean Speer. The Appalachian Photographs of Earl Palmer and Jean Haskell Speer . Lexington, KY: University Press of Kentucky, 1990. (124-126). ASU App Coll Stack F217 A65 S72 1990

University of Kentucky. Libraries. Division of Special Collections and Archives. Photographic Archives. Lexington, KY: Special Collections and Archives, University of Kentucky Libraries, 1979 ASU App Coll Z692.P5U551979

Relevant Journals/Periodicals in the W.L. Eury Appalachian Collection:

Now & Then: The Appalachian Magazine . Johnson City, Tennessee: Center for Appalachian Studies and Services. Appalachian Photography; Vol. 14, Number 2; Summer 1997. The Media and Appalachia 8.3 (Fall 1991) ASU App Coll Stack F217.A65 N68

Appalachian Heritage . Brea, KY: Brea College. Summer 1997, Fall 1991, Summer 2004, Spring 2004. ASU App Coll Stack F106.A137 A6

 

W.L. Eury Clippings Files: Relevant Headings:

  • Appalshop, Whitesburg, KY
  • Art-Appalachia
  • Culture-Appalachia
  • Mountain People
  • Museums
  • Museum of Appalachia, Norris, TN

 

Web Sites of Interest:

http://www.edelmangallery.com/adams.htm

http://webpages.charter.net/timbarnwell1/gallery1.html

http://www.partobject.com/ewald/we_bio.html

http://www.pbs.org/art21/artists/mann/

 

Relevant Indices and Abstracts:

Arts and Humanities Search [computerfile]. First Search. Dublin, Ohio: OCLC Online Computer Library Center, Inc., 1980- (Updated Weekly). Citations to more than 1,300 arts and humanities journals and to relevant articles on arts and humanities in over 5,800 social science and science journals.

American Humanities Index [computer file]. Whitston Publishing. Albany, NY: EBSCO, 1975- (Updated Monthly). Indexing for over 700 journals including articles, essays and reviews, as well as creative works including poems, fiction, photographs, painting and illustrations.

 


Compiled by Leigh Ann Henion, December 2, 2004