One family

By Vaughn Sills

Subjects: Families, Folklore, Pictorial works, Portraits, Rural families, Photography of families, Photograph collections, Family

Description: "One afternoon in the fall of 1979 photographer Vaughn Sills set out from Athens, Georgia, with a load of camera equipment, a tape recorder, and a caring spirit, seeking a family in a setting that would "call" to her. Running across a settlement of simple frame houses on a country road near town, Sills stopped, walked up, and commenced a twenty-year collaboration with the extended Toole clan that One Family so lovingly documents.". "From the thousands of images taken over the years on their front porches and in their homes and yards, Sills has selected 143 portraits documenting the daily lives of four generations of this large southern family and combined them with interviews, correspondence, and the heartfelt poems of Tina Toole Truelove. The resulting book is an artful mix of vivid images richly contextualized by Sill's own passionately held cultural and artistic values. One Family captures the essence, the individuality, and the mystery of this vital extended family in today's rural South."--BOOK JACKET.