Robert Johnson, 18, and Lanny Green, 21, Outside a Beer Joint in Clothier, West Virginia, near Madison. They Had Been Drinking Beer and Visiting with Friends Inside. Johnson Has Passed a Job Physical and Is Waiting to Go to Work in the Mines. Green Has Not Worked in the Mines and Isn't Interested, But Has Not Located a Job. He Would Like to Work for the Railroad 04/1974.
Four Young Men Gather in a Beer Joint in Clothier, West Virginia, near Madison. They Are Left to Right--Michael Doss, 18; Lanny Green, 21; Junior Jeffory, 20; and Robert Johnson, 18. All Their Parents Work Or Have Worked in the Mine. Jeffory Is a Mining Foreman after Two Years, But Does Not Like It and Wants to Join the Navy. Green Can't Find a Job But Would Like to Work for the Railroad Doss Isn't Working, But Is Waiting for a Job in the Mines 04/1974.
Robert Johnson, 18, Sits on a Pool Table in a Beer Joint in Clothier, West Virginia, near Madison. He Has Passed a Job Physical and Is Waiting to Go to Work in the Mines. Many of the Young Men Like to Get Together in the Taverns and Drink Beer and Talk. There Is Little Else to Do in the Small Mining Towns 04/1974.
The DOCUMERICA Project (1971-1977) was the Environmental Protection Agency's program to document subjects of environmental concern. These included everything from National Parks, Junkyards, and Coal Mines. To document this, the EPA hired over 70 well renowned freelance photographers, including Jack Corn.
For his DOCUMERICA assignment, Jack Corn focused his camera on the American Coal Miner. These photographs allow us to see the Coal Miner fully formed, from the young man waiting his chance to go down into the mines to the families touched by mining. These photographs stand in drastic contrast to the helpless caricatures others had focused on.
It's interesting to note that these photographs were taken just two short years after the disastrous Buffalo Creek Flood.
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