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Record Nr.

UNINA9910791087503321

Autore

Stark David <1950->

Titolo

This place, these people : life and shadow on the Great Plains / / photograph by Nancy Warner ; text by David Stark ; cover photograph, Nancy Warner ; cover and book design, Lisa Hamm

Pubbl/distr/stampa

New York, [New York] ; ; Chichester, [England] : , : Columbia University Press, , 2014

©2014

ISBN

0-231-53627-5

0-231-53790-5

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (130 p.)

Altri autori (Persone)

WarnerNancy <1951->

Disciplina

978.2

Soggetti

Farm life - Nebraska

Nebraska Pictorial works

Nebraska Rural conditions Pictorial works

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di contenuto

Cover; Title Page; Copyright; Dedication; Contents; Preface; Photographs and Voices; Family Album; Afterword: Life and Shadow on the Great Plains; List of Voices; List of Photographs; Acknowledgments

Sommario/riassunto

Nancy Warner's photographs and David Stark's interviews and reflections provide fresh perspective on the history and culture of a distinctly American phenomenon. Continuing in the tradition of Solomon D. Butcher, who photographed some of the first midwestern settlers in the nineteenth century, and Wright Morris, who combined photographic and verbal accounts of farmers' lives in the twentieth century, Stark and Warner explore a way of life that continues to adapt in the face of wrenching change.This book pairs images of abandoned farm places with the plain-spoken recollections of t