Salt and Truth – Limited Edition with Print A by Shelby Lee Adams. First edition (2011). First impression. Large format hardback in new condition. Housed in a clamshell box. Signed by Shelby Lee Adams to title page. Comes with a signed and numbered limited edition (8/35) Gelatin silver print. Print size – 20 x 25 cm. No markings. Please see pictures. PayPal accepted, any questions please get in touch.
About Salt and Truth
Salt & Truth is the fourth book from American photographer Shelby Lee Adams. This is a collection of 80 new photographs, taken over the past eight years. However, actually it continues a project the artist has been working on now for over 30 years. Together these powerful images of the hollow dwellers of eastern Kentucky, represent a singular access to a world that is historically not very trusting of outsiders, by a photographer who is widely recognized as a master of the medium.
Since the release of his last book, Appalachian Lives (2003), Adams has continued to add to his extraordinary body of work. Born in Hazard, Kentucky and raised in a hollow similar to those in the book, Adams connection to the people in his photographs is evident in the way that he has been openly welcomed into their homes and lives. Adams, along with his 45 view camera, is allowed into the personal space of his subjects, a witness in times of celebration as well as times of hardship. The photographs in this collection are of children and animals, of older folks, of working people, and the various details as seen through Adams camera, speak eloquently to the larger issues of faith and respect and compassion when many others might have seen only poverty and desperation. Adams knows what it means to be from this place, of this place.
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