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by Shelby Lee Adams (Author)
From the Heads of the Hollers is a collection of images of the people and culture of the secluded mountain life of Appalachia.
While still in school, photographer Shelby Lee Adams was exposed to the images of the Farm Security Administration and its depiction of the crippling effects of the Depression in the American South. Adams immediately connected with the images and related to the subjects. He was later driven to create the work in From the Heads of the Hollers, a project he began in 1973.
Author Biography
Adams holds photo degrees from the Cleveland Institute of Art, University of Iowa and Mass College of Art. His photographs are held in the permanent collections of numerous museums, including the Museum of Modern Art and the Whitney Museum of American Art, the Art Institute of Chicago, the Smithsonian American Art Museum, and the Victoria and Albert Museum among others. He has exhibited and lectured at many venues and group exhibitions internationally since 1974. His most recent previous titles include Appalachian Lives (2003), and Salt & Truth (2011)
