The Land I'm Bound To: Photographs

About this book

This retrospective volume places Jack Leigh in the company of other documentary giants such as Walker Evans and Dorothea Lang. While technology and urban sprawl have transformed much of our country in the last half of the twentieth century Jack Leigh has been quietly documenting the people and the landscape of the Southeastern coast a region steeped in history and tradition. The Land Im Bound To is the photographers tribute to the richly diverse culture of his native region. His subjects range from solitary oystermen working the fog-shrouded salt marshes of South Carolina to shrimp fishermen at sea to the swamps and marsh flats along Georgias Ogeechee River as well as the massive cranes and freighters of Savannahs busy port. Here Leigh is both inclusive and expansive offering some of his most memorable images as well as recent work that synthesizes the beauty and emotional grip the South has on many of us. 200 duotone photographs