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OverviewWhen photographer Rob Amberg first met Dellie Norton and her adopted son, Junior, in 1975, Norton was seventy-six years old and had lived most of her life in the small mountain community of Sodom Laurel, North Carolina, surrounded by close kin, tobacco fields, and the rugged wilderness of the southern Appalachians. Sodom Laurel Album traces the growing relationship between Norton and Amberg across the next two decades, years marked by the seasons of raising and harvesting food and tobacco and by the gatherings of family and friends for conversation, storytelling, and music. Richly evocative images are interlaced with stories of the people 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. Sodom Laurel Album is the companion publication to a traveling exhibition that will open at the Asheville Art Museum in November 2002. Full Product DetailsAuthor: Rob AmbergPublisher: The University of North Carolina Press Imprint: The University of North Carolina Press Edition: New edition Dimensions: Width: 15.60cm , Height: 2.10cm , Length: 23.50cm Weight: 1.212kg ISBN: 9780807827420ISBN 10: 0807827428 Pages: 192 Publication Date: 30 November 2002 Audience: College/higher education , Professional and scholarly , General/trade , Undergraduate , Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly Format: Hardback Publisher's Status: Active Availability: Out of stock  The supplier is temporarily out of stock of this item. It will be ordered for you on backorder and shipped when it becomes available. Table of ContentsReviewsThese photographs are suffused with a lyrical sense of beauty, rhythm, and the dignity of light. You come away with a deep understanding of the hardships and glories that made up Dellie Norton's life, her community, and her adventures in this world.<br>(John Cohen) 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) These photographs and texts haunt like the ballads Dellie Norton sang, and they startle with paradox, unexpected detail. (Robert Morgan) This book is not only a priceless record of a vanishing way of life; it's a work of art. It deserves every prize out there. (Lee Smith) These photographs are suffused with a lyrical sense of beauty, rhythm, and the dignity of light. You come away with a deep understanding of the hardships and glories that made up Dellie Norton's life, her community, and her adventures in this world. (John Cohen) Rob Amberg's images have the same durability and tenacity as the lives they depict. (Sally Mann) This book reminds us of the dignity and nobility that lie in ordinary places and ordinary people, without a trace of condescension. (Bill Malone) These photographs are suffused with a lyrical sense of beauty, rhythm, and the dignity of light. You come away with a deep understanding of the hardships and glories that made up Dellie Norton's life, her community, and her adventures in this world. (John Cohen) This book is not only a priceless record of a vanishing way of life; it's a work of art. It deserves every prize out there. (Lee Smith) Rob Amberg's images have the same durability and tenacity as the lives they depict. (Sally Mann) 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) These photographs and texts haunt like the ballads Dellie Norton sang, and they startle with paradox, unexpected detail. (Robert Morgan) This book reminds us of the dignity and nobility that lie in ordinary places and ordinary people, without a trace of condescension. (Bill Malone) Author InformationRob 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. Tab Content 6Author Website:Countries AvailableAll regions |
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