| FEATURED TITLE Shelby Lee Adams: Salt & Truth Introduction by James L. Enyeart. Text by Shelby Lee Adams, Catherine Evans. 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 >>more
Candela Books
ISBN 9780984573912
US $60.00 CAN $60.00 TRADE
Clth, 9.75 x 12 in. / 120 pgs / 80 tritone.
Pub Date: 11/30/2011 Active/In stock
| | Cory Reynolds | Date: 11/14/2011 A selection of Shelby Lee Adams' portraits of Kentucky mountain people was published this weekend by The New York Times (also expanded as a slideshow online). Gathered from Adams' new release, Salt & Truth, published by Candela Books, the images are accompanied by a short text by the artist, reproduced below.
OF KENTUCKY
Shelby Lee Adams
"Throughout my life I have experienced cultural diversity and continue to travel between two worlds, the hollers and cities. I was born in Hazard, KY, and raised primarily in a holler called Johnson's Fork, in Letcher County, where only mountain people had lived for generations. People from both sides of my family were born, lived andd died here. Neither of my grandfathers ever lived anywhere else. In true mountain tradition, they both gave land to my parents to build their home.
When I was young I couldn't wait to leave Kentucky. Now, as I get older, I value every day when I return."
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