9" X 11" Preface by the late Jonathan Williams, who put this beautiful and significant collection together for The Jargon Society of Highlands, North Carolina, and an introduction by the renowned folk collector, John Jacob Niles who accompanied Ms. Ulmann on many of her Appalachian travels. 63 full-page photographs, all striking images! For years this book sold for three figures on the used book market.

The Appalachian Photographs of Doris Ulmann

John Jacob Niles

The Jargon Society

Rare book of Ralph Eugene Meatyard photos.

The Family Album of Lucybelle Crater (Jargon, No. 76)

Arts & Photography

Meatyard, Ralph Eugene

Photography & Video

Ralph Eugene Meatyard was an American photographer who lived in Lexington, Kentucky. His most famous works involved masks, worn by posing people, or ordinary objects. While he lived his work was shown and collected by major museums, published in important art magazines, and regarded by his peers as among the most original and disturbing imagery ever created with a camera. He exhibited with such well-known and diverse photographers as Edward Weston and Ansel Adams. But by the late 1970s, his photographs seemed consigned to appear mainly in exhibitions of "southern" art. In the last decade, however, thanks in part to European critics, Meatyard's work has reemerged, and the depth of its genius and its contributions to photography have begun to be understood and appreciated. Everything about Meatyard's art ran counter to the usual and expected patterns. He was an optician, happily married, a father of three, president of the PTA, and coach of a boy's baseball team. His images had nothing to do with the gritty "street photography" of the east coast or the romantic view camera realism of the west coast. Meatyard took Fox Talbot's "pencil of nature" and drew calligraphic images with the sun's reflection on a black void of water. However, where others used these experiments to expand the possibilities of form in photographs, Meatyard consistently applied breakthroughs in formal design to the exploration of ideas and emotions. Finally-and of great importance in the development of his aesthetic-Meatyard created a mode of "No-Focus" imagery that was distinctly his own. Meatyard's death in 1972, a week away from his 47th birthday, came at the height of the "photo boom." Therefore, it was left to friends and colleagues to complete an Aperture monograph on Meatyard and carry through with the publication of The Family Album of Lucybelle Crater which he had laid out and sequenced before his death.

The Family Album of Lucybelle Crater (Jargon 76)

Book by MICKLER, Ernest Matthew [Jonathan Williams]

White Trash Cooking

Cookbooks, Food & Wine

MICKLER, Ernest Matthew

Regional & International

Photography. Poetry. This is the first book for Mark Steinmetz, a photographer with a very unique, somber vision. Steinmetz has been teaches in the summer photography program of the Art Department of the University of Georgia, at Cortona, in Tuscany. TUSCAN TREES offers a portfolio of some of his most luminous findings. Each black-and-white tree photograph is accompanied by the writing of Janet Lembke, whose "writing tacks between three points: the stuff of her late-twentieth-century life; the tangle of creature and plant in every dimension of tide and river flow; and the haunting, connecting wires of mythos that still knot us to the ancient beginnings"-Annie Proulx.

Tuscan Trees

Janet Lembke

As the founder of Institute 193 in Kentucky, and the director of the Souls Grown Deep Foundation in Georgia, Phillip March Jones is an active presence in the thriving photography culture of the American South. Despite his busy career, Jones’ newest book is about slowing down. Points of Departure is a collection of Polaroid photographs documenting memorials on the sides of highways, interstates, main-streets and back roads. This volume, handsomely produced by the august Jargon Society, offers a gently haunting portrait of these often ephemeral memorials, drawing out their folk-art qualities.

Phillip March Jones: Points of Departure: Roadside Memorial Polaroids

The Last Lunar Baedeker

Loy, Mina (Edited and Introduced By Roger L. Conover)

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The Appalachian Photographs of Doris Ulmann

The Family Album of Lucybelle Crater (Jargon, No. 76)

The Family Album of Lucybelle Crater (Jargon 76)

White Trash Cooking

Tuscan Trees

Tuscan Trees

Phillip March Jones: Points of Departure: Roadside Memorial Polaroids

The Last Lunar Baedeker