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PublisherDamiani

ISBN-108862086547

ISBN-139788862086547

eBay Product ID (ePID)20038672691

Product Key Features

Book TitleAndrew Moore: Blue Alabama

Number of Pages160 Pages

LanguageEnglish

TopicUnited States / South / East South Central (Al, Ky, ms, Tn), Individual Photographers / Monographs, General, Subjects & Themes / Landscapes

Publication Year2019

IllustratorYes

GenreTravel, Photography

AuthorAndrew Moore

FormatHardcover

Dimensions

Item Height0.9 in

Item Weight69 Oz

Item Length13.8 in

Item Width10.9 in

Additional Product Features

Intended AudienceTrade

Dewey Edition23

ReviewsBlue Alabama is the type of work I daydream I'd be doing if I'd never left the South...This book is full of beautiful people, interiors and landscapes that the Lord may have sent his way., Blue Alabama is the type of work I daydream I d be doing if I d never left the South...This book is full of beautiful people, interiors and landscapes that the Lord may have sent his way.

Dewey Decimal779.36761092

SynopsisPrecious and rare are the images and essays about Alabama that I recognize as belonging to my home & Blue Alabama is different. This book is true to my home. Imani Perry, from the Preface Andrew Moore photographs places in transition: Cuba, Detroit, the High Plains. In his latest project, he focuses on Alabama a region with a complex relationship to the past. Spending four years in lower Alabama, Moore searched for what he called that deep history which resides in the humblest of settings. And Alabama s Black Belt named for its fertile soil and deeply associated with the region s African American culture has that history. Before the Civil War, the region was the nation s highest producer of cotton. Afterward, it was the site of some of the Jim Crow era s most vicious violence and some of the Civil Rights Movement s key battles. Photographic history also runs thick through Alabama. The tenant farmers immortalized in James Agee and Walker Evans Let Us Now Praise Famous Men (1941) were residents, and some of the most famous images of the Civil Rights Movement Bull Connor s police dogs in Birmingham, the standoff at the Edmund Pettus Bridge in Selma were produced here. Moore s photographs of the Black Belt honor its complicated histories but depart from them, avoiding stereotypes and finding the hope, resilience and creativity that animate this place. With the photographer acting as a listener at history s doorstep, Blue Alabama offers a tender, surprising portrait of the South a region marked by economic, social and cultural divisions, but also a love of history, tradition and land. The book includes a previously unpublished story by award-winning American novelist Madison Smartt Bell. American photographer Andrew Moore (born 1957) is celebrated for his large-format photographs that document the effects of time and change. His publications include Detroit Disassembled (2010), Cuba (2012) and Dirt Meridian (2015)., Moore photographs places in transition: Cuba, Detroit, and the High Plains. In his latest project, he focuses on Alabama--a region with a complex relationship to the past. Spending four years in lower Alabama, Moore searched for what he called "that deep history which resides in the humblest of settings."ngs.", Andrew Moore's new book, Blue Alabama , focuses on the American South, depicts the economic, social and cultural divisions that characterize the South and the love of history, tradition and land that binds its citizens. Following upon in-depth explorations of the economically ravaged city of Detroit (2007 - 2009) and the mythic high plains region along the 100th Meridian (2011 - 2014), Blue Alabama continues the artist's investigation of "the inner empire" of the United States., "Precious and rare are the images and essays about Alabama that I recognize as belonging to my home ... Blue Alabama is different. This book is true to my home." -Imani Perry, from the Preface Andrew Moore photographs places in transition: Cuba, Detroit, the High Plains. In his latest project, he focuses on Alabama--a region with a complex relationship to the past. Spending four years in lower Alabama, Moore searched for what he called "that 'deep history' which resides in the humblest of settings." And Alabama's Black Belt--named for its fertile soil and deeply associated with the region's African American culture--has that history. Before the Civil War, the region was the nation's highest producer of cotton. Afterward, it was the site of some of the Jim Crow era's most vicious violence and some of the Civil Rights Movement's key battles. Photographic history also runs thick through Alabama. The tenant farmers immortalized in James Agee and Walker Evans' Let Us Now Praise Famous Men (1941) were residents, and some of the most famous images of the Civil Rights Movement--Bull Connor's police dogs in Birmingham, the standoff at the Edmund Pettus Bridge in Selma--were produced here. Moore's photographs of the Black Belt honor its complicated histories but depart from them, avoiding stereotypes and finding the hope, resilience and creativity that animate this place. With the photographer acting "as a listener at history's doorstep," Blue Alabama offers a tender, surprising portrait of the South--a region marked by economic, social and cultural divisions, but also a love of history, tradition and land. The book includes a previously unpublished story by award-winning American novelist Madison Smartt Bell. American photographer Andrew Moore (born 1957) is celebrated for his large-format photographs that document the effects of time and change. His publications include Detroit Disassembled (2010), Cuba (2012) and Dirt Meridian (2015).

LC Classification NumberTR647