Tennessee 24/7

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Summary: From the Memphis Commercial Appeal
Review: Memphis well represented in pages of 'Tennessee 24/7'

By Michael Lollar
October 5, 2004

From the Hernando DeSoto Bridge to the hazy peaks of the Great Smoky Mountains, a 144-page photo album of Tennessee arrives in bookstores this week as the sequel to last year's "America 24/7" photo essay.

The photos in "Tennessee 24/7" are part of a series with 50 state books edited from more than a million photos submitted as part of the biggest photo project in American history.

Memphis photographers whose work appears in the book include The Commercial Appeal staff photographers Karen Pulfer Focht, Lance Murphey, Alan Spearman, Jim Weber and A. J. Wolfe and former staff photographer Lisa Waddell Buser. Dennis Copeland, former photo director who now is with commercialappeal.com, served as Tennessee coordinator for the project. He said Memphis and the Mid-South are heavily represented with photographs ranging from a caretaker at the Elvis Presley gravesite to the bacchanalia of a Ms. Piggie competition at the Memphis in May International Barbecue Cooking Contest.

The book is $24.95 and is available in area bookstores or through the Web site America24-7.com. Buyers can personalize copies of the book by uploading their own photographs (to the Web site) for use as the bookjacket cover. Those custom covers cost $7.95 extra plus $2.95 for shipping and handling.