Nets & Doors: Shrimping in Southern Waters - Hardcover

Leigh, Jack

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0941711129 ISBN 13: 9780941711128

Publisher: Gibbs Smith, 1989

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Book by Leigh, Jack

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From the Back Cover

Praise for Jack Leigh and his other books,
OYSTERING AND THE OGEECHEE
...elegiac black-and-white photographs...Mr. Leigh resembles (Lewis Hine)--not esthetically,but in his ability to depict manual labor and, indeed, the South itself, without either sentimentality or condescension.
Vivien Raynor, The New York Times
...lyric documentary depicting the oystermen of South Carolina's coastal wetlands...these solitary pictures do conjure up the mood of a hushed, misty morning on the creeks and rivers of the Carolinas.
American Photographer
In this handsome volumn, Leigh chronicles in words and images both an untamed river and a vanishing way of life. For two years, he traveled the Northeast Georgia river, talking to hunters, fisherman and moonshine makers. Their stories are as memorable as Leigh's duotones.
The Orlando Sentinel
...the book's sepia-tinted photographs and shared anecdotes form an affectionate and plain-spoken portrait of the vanishing lifestyle of the rural South...Leigh has captured a way of life on film that few outsiders will ever see.
Boston Herald
As a photographer, Leigh brings to the book its unique quality of creating images that do more than illustrate the text. Many of the photographs can easily stand alone (and probably do) as artistic works. While his views of the river are solid and evocative of what it must feel like to be there, it is his pictures of the people that are the more compelling. Leigh's vision honors the human spirit and the dignity earned from experience.
Atlanta Journal-Constitution

From the Inside Flap

Leigh's vision honors the human spirit and the dignity earned from experience. Atlanta Journal-Constitution Nets & Doors Jack Leigh In his two previous, widely acclaimed books, Oystering: A Way of Life and The Ogeechee: A River and Its People, photojournalist Jack Leigh portrayed with compassion and accuracy two of the great cultural traditions of the South. In his third and newest book, Nets & Doors: Shrimping in Southern Waqters, Leigh again sets out to capture the unique quality and faces of another Southern cultural enclave-- the shrimp fisherman who ply the waters along the Southeastern coastline. Three years in preparation, Nets & Doors presents a beautiful, poignant and memorable evocation and record of a way of life which is rapidly changing and may well be passing away. In so doing, this book goes beyond documentation and stands, as do Leigh's other books, as a work of art. Back Flap Copy Jack Leigh, a native Savannah, Georgia, began his career as a photographer in 1972 following formal studies at the University of Georgia. His objective from the beginning if his professional career has been to seek out and record the people, environments and rapidly passing lifstyles of his native region--the American South. Leigh's award winning photographs have appeared in museum and gallery exhibitions, magazines and newspaper, and in two highly acclaimed books: Oystering: A Way of Life and The Ogeechee: A Rover and Its People. He has been the recipient of a Southern Arts Federation/National Endowment for the Arts Fellowship in Photography.

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SHRIMPING IN SOUTHERN WATERS
One of my fondest memories of childhood was the car ride I would take with my parents after Sunday school.

Edition details

• Publisher: Gibbs Smith
• Publication date: 1989
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0941711129
• ISBN 13: 9780941711128
• Binding: Hardcover
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 48