Title: beautiful photography
Review: I come from relatives that lived in the North Carolina mountains. My great-grandparents built their home from scraps, they lived a life of poverty. Their lives were full of hardships but they lived the lives they chose to live, by their own rules, by their own hands. Coming from Appalachian heritage myself, I am glad this book exists. I look at the images and they remind me of the people I came from. I do not find them offensive or degrading in any manner. I am an artist and photographer myself and I admire the photographer's vision and the time it took to get to know the families involved and to understand their personal beliefs. He has been photographing families since the mid-1970s. Shelby, being of southern heritage himself, remembered visiting the Appalachian people as a child with his uncle who was a doctor. I truly believe he sees the beauty in each face, each scrap-built home, each tattered piece of clothing. He has a deep respect for the people he photographed.
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