Research Catalog

Title

The last harvest : truck farmers in the Deep South / by Perry Dilbeck ; with a conclusion by Tom Rankin.

Author

Dilbeck, Perry.

Publication

Santa Fe, N.M. : Center for American Places, 2006.

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Details

Additional Authors

• Rankin, Tom
• Center for American Places.
• Columbia College (Chicago, Ill.)

Description

xi, 100 p. : ill.; 24 cm.

Summary

"Perry Dilbeck's photographs affectionately document the disappearing livelihood of the Southern truck farmer. Small and independent operators, truck farmers typically own fewer than forty acres of land and sell their vegetables and fruits at roadside stands or local farmers' markets. In recent years, the rise of large-scale commercial farming coupled with overdevelopment, which swallows up farmland daily, has greatly diminished this traditional business. To honor these farmers, Dilbeck chose to photograph them with a Holga, the simplest of plastic cameras. The Holga was first produced in 1982 as an inexpensive mass-market camera for working-class Chinese, who used them for family portraits or at family events. The sometimes surprising effects of the Holga, including vignetting and blurring, have popularized it with fine-art photographers. Dilbeck who formed close relationships with the farmers he portrays, always carried a tape recorder with him. The farmers' stories and memories, which are quoted throughout the book, are filled with the same pride and dignity that comes through in Dilbeck's remarkable photographs. His images show signs of a vigorous life and the vibrant stamp of the farmers' presence on the landscape: their garden plots, their antique machinery, and their homes and outbuildings. A culmination of more than ten years of work, The Last Harvest pays tribute to the legacy of local ways in the face of globalism and urban expansion."--

Series Statement

Center books on the American South ; 9th v

Uniform Title

Center books on the American South ; 9th v.

Subject

• Truck farming > Southern States > Pictorial works
• Farmers > Southern States > Pictorial works

Genre/Form

• illustrated books.
• Illustrated works
• Pictorial works
• Ouvrages illustrés.

Note

• "In association with Columbia College, Chicago."

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references.

Processing Action (note)

• committed to retain

Contents

Introduction -- The plates -- Jack Parris -- Horace Parker -- Leavell Smith -- Emerson "Red" Berry -- Thomas Singley -- Lawson Chafin -- Euston Slaton -- J. W. Clark -- Charlie Thomas Senior -- Buster Brown -- Alton Alexander -- Frank Hemphill -- Paul Harris -- Afterword -- Conclusion: Careful tending by Tom Rankin

ISBN

• 193006649X
• 9781930066496

OCLC

• 80557544
• SCSB-12627951

Owning Institutions

Harvard Library