1st Edition
Coal Cultures Picturing Mining Landscapes and Communities
By Derrick Price
Copyright 2018
216 Pages
by
Routledge
216 Pages
by
Routledge
216 Pages
by
Routledge
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Coal is the commodity that powered the technologies that made the modern world. It also brought about unique communities marked by a high degree of social solidarity and self-help. Mining was central to working class life, drawing rural populations into industrial labour, but it often took place in picturesque landscapes, so that its black spoil heaps became a central symbol of the degradation of... Read more
Table of ContentsList of IllustrationsIntroduction 1. Degradation and regeneration2. Images of miners3. Mining communities4. Fog, smog and pollution5. Strikes and conflict6. The new landscape of coal7. Heritage, memory and nostalgia ConclusionIndex
Biography
Derrick Price is a freelance writer and independent scholar who has published widely on photography and film. He currently Chairs the Board of Ffotogallery, the photography agency of Wales.
