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Daufuskie Island: 25th Anniversary Edition
Jeanne Moutoussamy-Ashe
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Description for Daufuskie Island: 25th Anniversary Edition
Hardcover. Captures life on a South Carolina sea island before the arrival of resort culture. This documentary includes photos of family gatherings, ox-carts, crabbing, children at play, church services, and the toils of everyday existence independent from many conveniences of modernity. Num Pages: 176 pages, 110 illustrations. BIC Classification: 1KBBFS; AJC; WTM. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 267 x 254 x 22. Weight in Grams: 1362.
This is an engrossing documentary of an African American sea island culture as it once existed.Through the photos of Moutoussamy-Ashe and words of Haley, ""Daufuskie Island"", first published in 1982, vividly captures life on a South Carolina sea island before the arrival of resort culture. Located between Hilton Head and Savannah, Daufuskie has since become a plush resort destination. These images document what life was like for the last inhabitants to occupy the land prior to the onset of tourist developments. When Moutoussamy-Ashe first came to Daufuskie in 1977, about eighty permanent African American residents lived on the island in ... Read more
This is an engrossing documentary of an African American sea island culture as it once existed.Through the photos of Moutoussamy-Ashe and words of Haley, ""Daufuskie Island"", first published in 1982, vividly captures life on a South Carolina sea island before the arrival of resort culture. Located between Hilton Head and Savannah, Daufuskie has since become a plush resort destination. These images document what life was like for the last inhabitants to occupy the land prior to the onset of tourist developments. When Moutoussamy-Ashe first came to Daufuskie in 1977, about eighty permanent African American residents lived on the island in ... Read more
Product Details
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2008
Publisher
University of South Carolina Press
Condition
New
Number of Pages
176
Place of Publication
South Carolina, United States
ISBN
9781570037481
SKU
V9781570037481
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Ref
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About Jeanne Moutoussamy-Ashe
Jeane Moutoussamy-Ashe has had frequent group and solo exhibitions at museums and galleries around the world, including the Leica Gallery, the Museum of Modern Art, the Whitney Museum of American Art, and the Brooklyn Museum of Art in New York; the Smithsonian and National Portrait Gallery in Washington, D.C., Galerie Herve Odermat in Paris; and the Excellsior in Florence. Her ... Read more
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