Moonshine by Bertien van Manen

A photo book by Dutch photographer Bertien van Manen.

Moonshine is a 30-year project filmed in the Appalachian region, known for its whiskey bootlegging during the 1920s when Prohibition was enacted in the United States. Van Manen first visited the Appalachian region of Kentucky, Tennessee and West Virginia in 1985, and continued to visit miner families periodically until 2013. Van Manen was particularly drawn to a woman named Mavis, who lived with her husband Junior and their children in a trailer in the mountains of Kentucky. Van Manen portrays Mavis's life, which sees her lose Junior to cancer, lose her job as a miner, remarry and watch her children grow up, against the backdrop of a crumbling mining community. The friendship and human connections forged between two people from different backgrounds, the intimate life of a family facing a changing culture and society, and van Manen's exploration of his own roots as a documentarian who was born and raised in a mining region, will be remembered for a long time.

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Title: Moonshine
Artist: Bertien van Manen
MACK, 2014
Hardcover
231 x 242 mm
112 pages
Text in English
First edition
ISBN: 978-1-907946-62-2
¥11,000