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Author: Vaughn Sills ,
Vaughn Sills ,
Robert Coles
Publisher: University of Georgia Press
Imprint: University of Georgia Press
Dimensions:
Width: 21.60cm
, Height: 2.20cm
, Length: 26.70cm
Weight: 1.012kg
ISBN: 9780820321998
ISBN 10: 0820321990
Pages: 192
Publication Date: 31 December 2000
Audience:
General/trade
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General
Format: Hardback
Publisher's Status: Active
Availability: Out of stock
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Language: English
Reviews
These 143 black-and-white images, chosen by Sills from the thousands she took, show the Tooles coping with their impoverished existence in dilapidated homes, porches, and yards. The photographs, mainly taken with a Polaroid camera, are accompanied by the subjects' own tape-recorded comments, including one family member's intimate thoughts expressed in touchingly simple poetry. . . . Her book is an honest portrayal of daily life in the present-day rural South, seen through the life of a single family. --Library Journal A very strong and compelling book, one that will make a sound contribution to photography, cultural studies, documentary studies, and regional studies. --Tom Rankin Executive Director, Center for Documentary Studies, Duke University
These 143 black-and-white images, chosen by Sills from the thousands she took, show the Tooles coping with their impoverished existence in dilapidated homes, porches, and yards. The photographs, mainly taken with a Polaroid camera, are accompanied by the subjects' own tape-recorded comments, including one family member's intimate thoughts expressed in touchingly simple poetry. . . . Her book is an honest portrayal of daily life in the present-day rural South, seen through the life of a single family.-- Library Journal
These 143 black-and-white images, chosen by Sills from the thousands she took, show the Tooles coping with their impoverished existence in dilapidated homes, porches, and yards. The photographs, mainly taken with a Polaroid camera, are accompanied by the subjects' own tape-recorded comments, including one family member's intimate thoughts expressed in touchingly simple poetry. . . . Her book is an honest portrayal of daily life in the present-day rural South, seen through the life of a single family. -- Library Journal
Author Information
"Vaughn Sills has exhibited her work nationally and has been awarded grants by The Commonwealth of Massachusetts Council on the Arts and Humanities and Polaroid Foundation through the New England Foundation for the Arts. Having grown up in Quebec, New England, and the South, she now lives in Massachusetts and teaches photography at Simmons College in Boston. The early photographs in ""One Family"" were taken with 120 mm film; nearly all of the pictures taken since 1982 were made with Polaroid film."
