Shelby Lee Adams
Shelby Lee Adams (born October 24, 1950)[1] is an American environmental portrait photographer and artist best known for his images of Appalachian family life.
Life and career[]
Adams has photographed Appalachian families since the mid-1970s.[2] He had first encountered the poor families of the Appalachian mountains as a child, travelling around the area with his uncle, who was a doctor.[3] His work has been published in three monographs: Appalachian Portraits (1993), Appalachian Legacy (1998), and Appalachian Lives (2003).
The True Meaning of Pictures[]
Adams was the subject of a documentary film by Jennifer Baichwal in 2002 - The True Meaning of Pictures: Shelby Lee Adams's Appalachia. This was shown at the Toronto International Film Festival, and at the Sundance Festival in 2003.[4][5] The film critiques and defends Adams' method in photographing Appalachian people for his previously published books.
Awards[]
Books by Adams[]
- Appalachian Portraits. Jackson: University Press of Mississippi, 1993. ISBN 0-87805-646-7; ISBN 0-87805-667-X.
- Appalachian Legacy: Photographs. Jackson: University Press of Mississippi, 1998. ISBN 1-57806-048-6; ISBN 1-57806-049-4.
- Appalachian Lives. Jackson: University Press of Mississippi, 2003. ISBN 1-57806-540-2.
- Salt and Truth. Richmond, Va.: Candela, 2011. ISBN 0-9845739-1-7.
Permanent collections[]
- Art Institute of Chicago, Chicago[6]
- Museum of Contemporary Photography, Chicago[7]
- International Center of Photography, New York City[8]
- Musée de l'Élysée, Lausanne[9]
- Museum of Modern Art, New York[8]
- Fogg Museum, Cambridge, Massachusetts[8][10]
- National Gallery of Canada, Ottawa[7]
- San Francisco Museum of Modern Art[11]
- Smithsonian American Art Museum, Washington, DC[8][12]
- Stedelijk Museum, Amsterdam[7]
- Time Life Collection, Rockefeller Center, New York[citation needed]
- Victoria and Albert Museum, London[13]
- Whitney Museum of American Art, New York[8]
- Middle Tennessee State University, Murfreesboro[14]
References[]
- ^ Mark, Rebecca & Vaughan, Robert (2004) The South, Greenwood Press, ISBN 978-0-313-32734-6, p. 60-61
- ^ Foerstner, Abigail (1994) "Appalachia observed: Shelby Lee Adams exhibit features portraits out of a living past", Chicago Tribune, September 25, 1994, p. 18
- ^ "Vanishing Tribe", Mother Jones, September–October 1991, p. 52-55, retrieved 2010-10-18
- ^ Goddard, Peter (2002) "Photographer spies on the human drama: Shelby Lee Adams's Appalachian photographs capture undercurrent of pain", Toronto Star, August 31, 2002, p. H12.
- ^ Harvey, Dennis (2003) "The True Meaning of Pictures: Shelby Lee Adams' Appalachia", Variety, February 2, 3003, retrieved 2010-10-18
- ^ "The Home Funeral, 1990", catalogue entry, Art Institute of Chicago. Accessed 3 August 2011.
- ^ Jump up to: a b c "Shelby Lee Adams", Museum of Contemporary Photography. Accessed 3 August 2011.
- ^ Jump up to: a b c d e Shelby Lee Adams Archived 2012-03-28 at the Wayback Machine, International Center of Photography. Accessed 3 August 2011.
- ^ "The collection", Musée de l'Élysée. Accessed 3 August 2011.
- ^ Catalogue search for "Shelby Lee Adams" Archived 2012-03-23 at the Wayback Machine, Harvard Art Museums. Accessed 3 August 2011.
- ^ "Works by Shelby Lee Adams", San Francisco Museum of Modern Art. Accessed 3 August 2011.
- ^ Results of a search of the collection, 3 August 2011.
- ^ "Berthie Napier with Pipe and John", catalogue entry, Victoria and Albert Museum. Accessed 3 August 2011.
- ^ "Photographer Shelby Lee Adams to create MTSU archive of Appalachian images". DNJ. 2016-11-04. Retrieved 2019-08-24.
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