The Humours of Folly - Hardcover

Ellie Maas Davis; Frank Braden

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 098187357X ISBN 13: 9780981873572

Publisher: Joggling Board Press, 2009

Synopsis

Folly Beach, South Carolina with all it quirks and warts, its stretch marks and beauty marks, its playful goofiness, its dark underbelly is the inspiration behind The Humours of Folly. The ancient theories of the bodily humours black bile, yellow bile, phlegm and blood tie to the elements of the earth, seasons of the year and the many moods of human expression. These serve as the construct for this photographic jaunt by Texas photographer Frank Melvin Braden. His images are mated with a poetic narrative by Charleston writer Ellie Maas Davis. Photographer and writer both turned up rocks, stirred the pluff mud and spent considerable time with some of Folly s finest characters to unearth stories told in pictures and words.

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Review:

Ellie Davis's words and Frank Braden's pictures capture the edgy poetry of Folly Beach. A must have for the beach-bum in all of us. --Richard Garcia

Davis and Braden capture perfectly the wild swing of Folly Beach from sordid to sublime and back. Braden's lens adores every still life, portrait and landscape, revealing with exuberance and skill the gutter in all its glory, the splendor of the vanishing moment. Davis's captions range from concise revelatory histories to a luminous poetry, giving us a grasp of the paradox of our dirty silk rag of a Folly, falling into the ocean through our fingers. --Katherine Williams

Frank Braden's extraordinary photographs artfully capture both the eccentricity and beauty of Folly Beach and its people. --Jack Alterman

About this edition

• Publisher: Joggling Board Press
• Publication date: 2009
• ISBN 10: 098187357X
• ISBN 13: 9780981873572
• Binding: Hardcover
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 224