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2003 / First Edition
Signed and inscribed on title page.
Publisher: University Press of Mississippi
This collection of eighty photographs focuses on present-day Appalachia, a region that "progress" has placed under siege. This once poverty-stricken, mountain backwater has been invaded by four-lane interstates, cable television, Wal-Mart, and mobile homes. The people have largely abandoned log cabins and country stores and now shun overalls in favor of tee shirts that blaze advertising logos. Over a period of twenty-five years Adams has traveled back to his home state of Kentucky with his cameras to document the lives of people there and to enrich and challenge outside perceptions of Appalachia.
The boys of Appalachian Portraits (1993) now have become the young men of Appalachian Lives. Old homesteads have changed hands. The elderly in earlier photographs have died, yet their features glow in the faces of descendants. Adams's accompanying text explains how he attains the level of trust that allows him to continue photographing these people. His honesty about his interaction with his subjects, their sometimes wary reactions to him, and his personal history in the region infuse the photographs with an intimacy that only an Appalachian insider such as Adams could achieve.
Condition: Hardcover. Like new. Wrapped in mylar.
2003 / First Edition
Signed and inscribed on title page.
Publisher: University Press of Mississippi
This collection of eighty photographs focuses on present-day Appalachia, a region that "progress" has placed under siege. This once poverty-stricken, mountain backwater has been invaded by four-lane interstates, cable television, Wal-Mart, and mobile homes. The people have largely abandoned log cabins and country stores and now shun overalls in favor of tee shirts that blaze advertising logos. Over a period of twenty-five years Adams has traveled back to his home state of Kentucky with his cameras to document the lives of people there and to enrich and challenge outside perceptions of Appalachia.
The boys of Appalachian Portraits (1993) now have become the young men of Appalachian Lives. Old homesteads have changed hands. The elderly in earlier photographs have died, yet their features glow in the faces of descendants. Adams's accompanying text explains how he attains the level of trust that allows him to continue photographing these people. His honesty about his interaction with his subjects, their sometimes wary reactions to him, and his personal history in the region infuse the photographs with an intimacy that only an Appalachian insider such as Adams could achieve.
Condition: Hardcover. Like new. Wrapped in mylar.