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Shelby Lee Adams: Salt and Truth

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ISBN-10: 0984573917

ISBN-13: 9780984573912

Edition: 2011

Authors: Shelby Lee Adams, James Enyeart, Catherine Evans, Catherine Evans

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Shelby Lee Adams first encountered the communities of the Appalachian mountains as a child, while accompanying his doctor uncle on his rounds. In the mid-1970s he started to photograph in the region, using a 4 x 5 camera, gaining and building a special trust among its often impoverished people, who have tended to not always welcome would-be documentarians. Adams not only records their lives and hardships with great empathy, but also depicts the grace and humanity of his subjects, photographing with an ease evident in the results. Salt and Truthis Adams' fourth monograph, and presents 80 new photographs taken mostly over the past eight years. The photographs in this collection are of…    
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List price: $60.00
Copyright year: 2011
Publisher: Candela Books
Publication date: 11/30/2011
Binding: Hardcover
Pages: 120
Size: 10.00" wide x 12.00" long x 0.80" tall
Weight: 2.838
Language: English

Shelby Lee Adams's photographs have been shown in single-artist exhibits in New York, New Orleans, and Dallas, among other cities. Find out more about Shelby Lee Adams at shelby-lee-adams.blogspot.com

Mason Kleinis curator at The Jewish Museum, New York. He is the author of Modigliani: Beyond the Myth and Alias Man Ray.Catherine Evansis the William and Sarah Ross Soter Curator of Photography at the Columbus Museum of Art.