Monday, July 16, 2007

Benny and Arch,'06



"Benny & Arch", 06, Family & Photo Assistant, Aron, after making photograph.






Subjectivity as a Pathway to Art: Shelby Lee Adams' True Pictures
Guggenheim Site 2010 Check out Slide Show
Shelby's Guggenheim Party, Viper, KY, Summer 2010, Black & White Magazine Interview with Renee Jacobs, Issue #81, March 2011

Visura Magazine, Portfolio represented, April '09
Scotty Stidham - YouTube [video by Shelby Lee Adams]
The Aroostook Review, Interview
Lenswork Quarterly, Volume 27: Interview Jan. 2000
Contemporary Documentary Photography in Appalachia
"Portraits and Dreams" (video & book) Wendy Ewald, Letcher Co. KY.
Rory Kennedy - Film made in Saul, KY - "American Hollow"
Smithsonian American Art Museum - 1st portfolio published
"Appalachia:A Self-Portrait,'' Edited by Wendy Ewald, funded by NEA Survey Grant 1978.

University Press of Mississippi [books - to order]
Mike Johnson's "The Online Photographer"

John Wyatt Photographer
Curt Miller's Photo Blog
"The True Meaning of Pictures" [DVD]




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Cecil Cornett lived in Linefork, KY. He had worked with and for both of my grandfather's as a farmer and timber man. He often laughed, telling me he knew both my parents before they were married.


Cecil, The Woodworker, '92


Cecil with Mother's Swing, '95


Cecil with Seeds, Gourd and Bucket, '93


Cecil, 1983


Cecil, 1985
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"The history of photography needs an inside-out approach rather than an outside-in view. To deduce the spirit of the past, we must be willing to compile the hard facts."

Bill Jay


New Haircut, 1983


Cathy, 1983


Chester, 92


The Collins Couple, 1987


Milt Cox, 1996


Marion Sumner and Wife, 1985
[played character role in movie, "The Coal Miner's Daughter"]


Brown, 1988


Hillard, 1989


Roy, Charlie and Melony, date/researching?


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Kelly and Armeldia, '83


Armeldia, '93
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Roy, '86

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Johnny and Pauline Gibson Family

Johnny, 1980 [father]


Pauline, 1981 [mother]


Pauline, 1980


Pauline, 1981


Pauline Standing, 1979



Pauline and Merle [mother & son], 1981


Merle, 1979


Corbet, 1980 [son]


Corrine and Aunt Pauline, 1980


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Three Brother's



Howard, 1977


Arlie, 1977


Crow with Tomato Can's, 1994




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