Coal Cultures: Picturing Mining Landscapes and Communities

ISBN-13: 9781350037830 / Angielski / Twarda / 2018 / 216 str.

Derrick Price

Opis

Coal is the commodity that powered the technologies that made the modern world. It also brought about unique communities marked by a high degree of social solidarity and self-help.

Spis treści

Table of Contents List of Illustrations Introduction 1. Degradation and regeneration 2. Images of miners 3. Mining communities 4. Fog, smog and pollution 5. Strikes and conflict 6. The new landscape of coal 7. Heritage, memory and nostalgia Conclusion Index

O autorze

Derrick Price is a freelance writer and independent scholar who has published widely on photography and film. He currently Chairs the Board of Ffotogallery, the photography agency of Wales.