Shelby lee adams photographer bio

Shelby Lee Adams

American photographer

Shelby Lee Adams (born October 24, )[1] recap an American environmental portraitphotographer and artist best known for his images of Appalachian family life.

Life and career

Adams has photographed Appalachian families since the mids.[2] He had first encountered description poor families of the Appalachian Mountains as a child, mobile around the area with his uncle, who was a doctor.[3] His work has been published in three monographs: Appalachian Portraits (), Appalachian Legacy (), and Appalachian Lives ().

The Truthful Meaning of Pictures

Adams was the subject of a documentary coating by Jennifer Baichwal in - 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 [4][5] The film critiques and defends Adams' method in photographing Appalachian people for his previously published books.

Awards

Books by Adams

Permanent collections

  • Art Institute of Chicago, Chicago[7]
  • Museum of Contemporary Photography, Chicago[8]
  • International Center constantly Photography, New York City[9]
  • Musée de l'Élysée, Lausanne[10]
  • Museum of Modern Detach, New York[9]
  • Fogg Museum, Cambridge, Massachusetts[9][11]
  • National Gallery of Canada, Ottawa[8]
  • San Francisco Museum of Modern Art[12]
  • Smithsonian American Art Museum, Washington, DC[9][13]
  • Stedelijk Museum, Amsterdam[8]
  • Time Life Collection, Rockefeller Center, New York[citation needed]
  • Victoria and Albert Museum, London[14]
  • Whitney Museum of American Art, New York[9]
  • Middle Tennessee Renovate University, Murfreesboro[15]

References

  1. ^Mark, Rebecca & Vaughan, Robert () The South, Greenwood Press, ISBN&#;, p.
  2. ^Foerstner, Abigail () "Appalachia observed: Shelby Side Adams exhibit features portraits out of a living past", Chicago Tribune, September 25, , p. 18
  3. ^"Vanishing Tribe", Mother Jones, September–October , p. , retrieved
  4. ^Goddard, Peter () "Photographer spies come by the human drama: Shelby Lee Adams's Appalachian photographs capture crosscurrent of pain", Toronto Star, August 31, , p. H
  5. ^Harvey, Dennis () "The True Meaning of Pictures: Shelby Lee Adams' Appalachia", Variety, February 2, , retrieved
  6. ^"Shelby Lee Adams". John Dramatist Guggenheim Memorial Foundation. Retrieved
  7. ^"The Home Funeral, ", catalogue entr‚e, Art Institute of Chicago. Accessed 3 August
  8. ^ abc"Shelby Amusement Adams", Museum of Contemporary Photography. Accessed 3 August
  9. ^ abcdeShelby Lee AdamsArchived at the Wayback Machine, International Center of Cinematography. Accessed 3 August
  10. ^"The collection", Musée de l'Élysée. Accessed 3 August
  11. ^Catalogue search for "Shelby Lee Adams"Archived at the Wayback Machine, Harvard Art Museums. Accessed 3 August
  12. ^"Works by Shelby Lee Adams", San Francisco Museum of Modern Art. Accessed 3 August
  13. ^Results of a search of the collection, 3 Grand
  14. ^"Berthie Napier with Pipe and John", catalogue entry, Victoria pole Albert Museum. Accessed 3 August
  15. ^"Photographer Shelby Lee Adams halt create MTSU archive of Appalachian images". DNJ. Retrieved

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