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Foreword by Robert Gamble.

HEART OF A SMALL TOWN is Robin McDonald's paean to a time when small rural communities all over this country bustled with life. Concentrating on Alabama, he draws many of his subjects from those areas of the state that have been bypassed by major highways and left somewhat deserted. Places like Verbena, Mentone, Win-field, Burnt Corn, Newbern, Epes, and Enterprise; places in the Black Belt, in Wiregrass Country, in the Piedmont. There he records common objects— screen doors, broken sidewalks, storefront displays, neon signs, rusting pickup trucks, vine-covered walls, and church windows—with an uncommon sensitivity.
Matched with quotations from writings that grew out of these places, the images take on an unusually vibrant life. They echo with the hopes and joys and the struggles and grief of folks who have called these small towns "home." Robin McDonald's photographs are animated and enriched by the lyrical quotations

borrowed from southern writers, some nearly forgotten, like Augusta Evans Wilson and Viola Goode Liddell, and some well known, like Truman Capote, Vicki Covington, and Rick Bragg.
The photographs sizzle in the summer heat or cool in the shadows of a window-lit interior, but they always speak of the business of living. Robert Gamble understands McDonald's work best when, in his foreword, he quotes from noted midwestern poet Edgar Lee Masters, "Life all around me here in the village. All in the loom, and oh what patterns!"

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Autore/i Robin McDonald
Editore University of Alabama Press Luogo Alabama
Anno 2003 Pagine 160
Dimensioni 21x21x2 (cm) Illustrazioni ill. colori n.t. - colors ills
Legatura cart. edit. con sovracc. ill. colori - Hardcover with dustjacket Conservazione Nuovo - New
Lingua Inglese - English text Peso 900 (gr)
ISBN 0817313753 EAN-13 9780817313753