Merry Christmas, everyone! This year's treat is a photo that Lyn Adams made in Kentucky or West Virginia, in about 1976.
Lyn Adams, untitled, c.1976. Appalshop Inc. Photo Survey Project, Smithsonian American Art Museum, transfer from the National Endowment for the Arts. [Click on the image to see a much larger version.]
I don't know very much about Adams or the Appalshop project. In his wonderful book, Through the Lens of the City: NEA Photographic Surveys of the 1970s, Mark Rice says that the project involved photographers from the Mountain Photography Workshop coming together to document the lifestyles, traditions, and problems of the people of Appalachia. Besides Adams, the photographers included Wendy Ewald and Shelby Lee Adams, who have become well known, as well as several others. The survey led to the publication of a book-length photo essay, Appalachia: A Self-Portrait, in 1979.
That's all I can tell you about Lyn Adams. (Google hasn't been much help.) If you know more, please let me know by leaving a comment.
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