The Face of Appalachia: Portraits from the Mountain Farm

About this book

A world we have lost in beautiful photographs and moving words. Life in the steep hills of Appalachia has changed more in the last twenty years than in the previous two hundred. Long a region of farmers burley tobacco cattle copious gardens durable traditions and hard-working families it has become a region of retirees developers young urban escapees and new highways. Aware of the transformation Tim Barnwell set out to document the lives of the people in the land he grew up in. His sensitive portraits landscapes and farm scenes and his penetrating oral histories give us an entre into a life characterized by straightforward joys hardships isolation and independence. It is a way of life we will not see again. 100 duotone photographs.