Publisher/MIT Press

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"Deer Camp: Last Light in the Northeast Kingdom" is a collection of works by American photographer John M. Miller. Born in Coventry, Vermont, Miller is a documentary photographer who has long documented the New England region. Through his work at the Shelburne Museum and exhibition projects supported by the National Endowment for the Humanities, he has quietly unearthed the memories of local culture and communities. The setting of this book, "Northeast Kingdom," is a forested region in northeastern Vermont, known for its unique landscape and culture. Miller meticulously documents the communal life of hunters who gather during the deer hunting season—the "deer camp"—not only the hunting itself, but also the oral culture, forest knowledge, labor, food, and intergenerational transmission of the local community—through black-and-white photographs and interviews. This book gazes upon the "last light" of American regional culture in the 1990s, which was in danger of being lost due to development and changing values, leaving a profound impression that oscillates between ethnography and photographic expression.