The Picture Man: Photographs By Paul Buchanan

The Picture Man was Paul Buchanan (ca. 1910–1987), an itinerant photographer who, on foot, on horseback, and by car, wandered four North Carolina mountain counties from 1920 until about 1951. He had stopped making pictures for more than thirty years when Ann Hawthorne, a photographer living in the mountains, heard about Buchanan and went to see him. He told her stories — many of which are transcribed in this book — and showed her some of his negatives, which were filthy and, she thought, un...