{"product_id":"picture-taker-ken-elkins-9780817314781","title":"Picture Taker: Photographs by Ken Elkins","description":"This collection of 100 haunting, sometimes humorous, but always deeply honest black-and-white photographs reveals the 42-year career of a master photographer and photojournalist. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eKen Elkins retired as chief photographer of the \u003ci\u003eAnniston Star\u003c\/i\u003e in 2000, and this selection of his work demonstrates his brilliant eye for finding and capturing images of rural southern lives and landscapes in all their difficulty, candor, and humor. These are unadorned images of a timeless landscape and proud resourceful people, who know well their neighbors, honor their past, and face the tests of daily life with wit and a stoic sense of endurance. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\"The old scenes are gone, or going . . . and the people are different, less likely to be in overalls and print dresses, less likely to a sliver of tobacco off a sweet-smelling plug of Brown Mule. So we try to remember, imperfectly. But not Elkins. . . . He and his camera have found value in their lives that so many others--a world full--were unable to see. I have worked beside the very, very best. But I only know one picture taker. When he turns his lens on the mostly rural, mostly poor pockets of his native Alabama, something beautiful happens. He draws out the dignity and loveliness that is in these people, and spreads it out for the rest of the world to see.\" --Rick Bragg, the Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist and author of \u003ci\u003eAll over but the Shoutin', Somebody Told Me, Ava's Man, \u003c\/i\u003eand \u003ci\u003eThe Most They Ever Had\u003c\/i\u003e, in his foreword to \u003ci\u003ePicture Taker\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Ken Elkins\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-10:\u003c\/b\u003e 0817314784\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9780817314781\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e University Alabama Press\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage:\u003c\/b\u003e English\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 09\/01\/2005\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 120\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat:\u003c\/b\u003e Hardcover\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 2.42lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 11.38h x 10.30w x 0.76d\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eReview Citation(s): \u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eBooklist\u003c\/i\u003e 09\/01\/2005 pg. 38\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eChoice\u003c\/i\u003e 02\/01\/2006 pg. 1008","brand":"Ken Elkins","offers":[{"title":"Hardcover","offer_id":46747593343231,"sku":"9780817314781","price":34.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0662\/2982\/9887\/files\/img_6ca517de-9cb5-40ad-8917-536ea56e4386.jpg?v=1743584194","url":"https:\/\/www.whiterainbookhouse.com\/products\/picture-taker-ken-elkins-9780817314781","provider":"WR Book House","version":"1.0","type":"link"}