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Sodom Laurel Album with CD (Audio)

by Rob Amberg

Sodom Laurel Album with CD (Audio) Cover

ISBN13: 9780807827420
ISBN10: 0807827428
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Publisher Comments:

Richly evocative images are interlaced with stories of the people of the small North Carolina mountain community of Sodom Laurel, and with Amberg's own candid journals, which reveal his gradually growing understanding of this world he entered as a stranger. The book also includes a CD featuring Dellie Norton, Doug Wallin, and other singers of traditional Appalachian music. Through words, photographs, oral histories, and songs, Sodom Laurel Album tells the moving story of a once-isolated community on the brink of change, the people who live there, and the music that binds them together.

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This book reminds us of the dignity and nobility that lie in ordinary places and ordinary people, without a trace of condescension.

(Bill Malone)

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Rob Amberg has rendered exquisite portraits of Americans rarely seen. . . . Thanks to him, they live on in these pages, and tell their stories, and their existence on this earth is given dignity and meaning and reverence.

(Larry Brown)

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Rob Amberg's images have the same durability and tenacity as the lives they depict.

(Sally Mann)

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Rob Amberg's images have the same durability and tenacity as the lives they depict. He is trusted well enough to be there, up close, when the women embrace in affection or when the farmer pauses in the heat. And Amberg does not betray that trust. What we see is sympathetic, not sentimental, simple but not facile. Amberg makes real what is found on the pages of the Southern novel. (Sally Mann)

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These photographs and texts haunt like the ballads Dellie Norton sang, and they startle with paradox, unexpected detail. Rob Amberg's pictures bring to life a world almost gone, and yet intimately connected to the present. He gives us a window on the families and lands of Sodom Laurel, far above the cities of the plain, and close as your pulsebeat. (Robert Morgan)
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About the Author

Rob Amberg is an award-winning photographer and writer who does assignment work for nonprofit organizations, foundations, and publications. He lives in Madison County, North Carolina. Dellie Chandler Norton (1898-1993) was a much-loved storyteller and ballad singer whose songs were recorded by Alan Lomax and John Cohen. In 1990, she received a North Carolina Folk Heritage Award.
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Product Details

ISBN:
9780807827420
Author:
Amberg, Robert
Author:
Amberg, Rob
Publisher:
University of North Carolina Press
Location:
Chapel Hill
Subject:
General
Subject:
Social life and customs
Subject:
Folklore & Mythology
Subject:
Collections, Catalogs, Exhibitions
Subject:
Folk music
Subject:
Documentary photography
Subject:
Tobacco farmers
Subject:
Sodom Laurel
Subject:
General Photography
Subject:
Collections, Catalogs, Exhibitions - General
Subject:
Documentary photography - North Carolina -
Subject:
Amberg, Rob
Copyright:
2002
Series:
Published by the University of North Carolina Press in association with the Center for Documentary Studies. A Lyndhurst Book
Series Volume:
2001-3
Publication Date:
January 2002
Binding:
Hardcover
Grade Level:
General/trade
Language:
English
Illustrations:
Y
Pages:
192
Dimensions:
24 x 27 cm. +
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