photo-eye Book Reviews: Slow Burn

Slow Burn , Photographs by Renee Jacobs. Published by Pennsylvania State University Press, 2010. Slow Burn Reviewed by Tom Leininger…

Link: http://blog.photoeye.com/2010/12/photo-eye-book-reviews-slow-burn.html

A coal fire started underneath Centralia, Pennsylvania in 1962. It was still burning when Renée Jacobs arrived to document life in the town in 1983. A handful of residents remain today, but the town is essentially gone.