Down Home

by Bob Adelman, Susan Hall (Text Editor)

Photos and interviews from a small Alabama town.

Genres: Nonfiction

166 pages, Hardcover

First published January 1, 1972

About the author

Bob Adelman has photographed cover stories for magazines including Esquire, Time, People, LIFE, Harper's, the New York Times Magazine, and Paris Match. An award-winning photojournalist, Adelman has exhibited his photographs at the Smithsonian and the American Federation of Art, and has them included in the collection of the Museum of Modern Art. Adelman is well-known for his photographs documenting the civil rights movement; he was in Birmingham, Selma, and DC, often by Martin Luther King's side.

Reviews

[Jim · Rating 5 out of 5]

Essentially a photographic study of people in a small town in Alabama in the 1970s. The photos are first rate but some of the interviews, particularly those concerning race relations, will set your teeth on edge. This is especially true when white folks are trying to impress the photographer with their tolerance...black folks sure can sing, run, dance and play baseball! In any event, a true record of the times and the black and white studies (photographs, not race relations) are the work of a master.

[Carol · Rating 5 out of 5]

This is one of my favorite books. Lots of photographs which help to tell the story of life in Camden, Alabama. The people pictured live in a poor, rural area and are blue collar workers. The story
would not be the same without the many photographs. I grew up in another county in Alabama and
am able to say that this is an accurate portrayal of the 1970s in rural Alabama.