Above photo: Robbie and Tyler on Wrecker, 2003, published in Salt&Truth, 2011
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Updated April 2024 This site features a collection of publications, events, and photos that feature Shelby, his subjects, and work.
Exhibit at POLKA Gallery, Paris, France, From Mar. 21 - May 27th, 24.
Instillation photo at entrance to gallery. Photo spanned 10 1/2 ft. X 7 1/2 ft. tall.
Title exhibit, "American Families."
Magazine POLKA Issue # 64
11 photos represented in publication and 21 photos in exhibit.
Louisville, KY Oct. 5th, 23- Jan. 2024
Black & White Magazine, Issue 138 April 2020, Appalachian Portraits. Interview with David Best, portfolio of 13 images represented.
Southbound: Photographs of and about the
New South
is an unprecedented photography exhibition
co-curated by Mark Sloan, director and chief
curator of the Halsey Institute of Contemporary Art,
and Mark Long, professor of political science,
both of whom are on the faculty of the College
of Charleston, in South Carolina.
Southbound comprises fifty-six photographers’
visions of the South over the first decades of the
twenty-first century. Accordingly, it offers a
composite image of the region. The photographs
echo stories told about the South as a bastion of
tradition, as a region remade through
Americanization and globalization, and as
a land full of surprising realities.
Celebrating 50 Years of the University of Louisville Photo. Archives,
Hite Art Institute, Exhibition and catalogue,
University of Louisville
Louisville, Kentucky, 2012
1 exhibition print with one mentor's photograph from the collection.
Paul Paletti exhibited portrait of Shelby Lee Adams as his mentor. Excerpt from his statement:
"Shelby Lee Adams' photographs have always affected me with their depth of feeling and straight-forward character. These are Shelby's artworks, but also portraits in the truest sense, going far beyond the surface."
"I have accompanied Shelby several times on his visits to people living in Eastern Kentucky. These are "his people," and it has been a privilege for me to observe, learn and understand how he has built relationships with these families over the last thirty six years."
Paul Paletti
Black & White Magazine, Issue 138 April 2020, Appalachian Portraits. Interview with David Best, portfolio of 13 images represented.
Double page spread from B&W Magazine. 2020
From the book, "Humanity," edited by Larry Warsh
"Are you supposed to be involved with moral,
philosophical and intellectual conversation.
If you call yourself an artist, this is your responsibility."
"Power is afraid of art and the poet.
Art has the possibility to defend the very essential rights."
As a watchword to myself and my generation, I take with me,
from this reading of Humanity, Weiwei's courageous declaration:
"I don't need anything.
I just want to burn myself out.
This life; you better use it."
Ai Weiwei
True To The Eyes, The Howard and Carol Tanenbaum Photo Collection
Published 2019 Hirmer/Ryerson Image Center
Toronto, Canada
Photo Represented:
64 Years of Marriage, 1973
Southbound: Photographs of and about the
New South
is an unprecedented photography exhibition
co-curated by Mark Sloan, director and chief
curator of the Halsey Institute of Contemporary Art,
and Mark Long, professor of political science,
both of whom are on the faculty of the College
of Charleston, in South Carolina.
Southbound comprises fifty-six photographers’
visions of the South over the first decades of the
twenty-first century. Accordingly, it offers a
composite image of the region. The photographs
echo stories told about the South as a bastion of
tradition, as a region remade through
Americanization and globalization, and as
a land full of surprising realities.
Shelby has 5 photographs reproduced in the accompanying book titled," SouthBound, Photographs of and about the new South," Published 2018, Halsey Institute of Contemporary Art. Exhibition will travel for 2 years.
Preacher Dillard, 2012, as published in SouthBound 2018
Photographer has 10 images represented in entire project.
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2017 - 2019 "The Polaroid Art and Technology Project," Curated by Barbara Hitchcock and William A. Ewing, in collaboration with M.I.T. Museum, Cambridge, The Westlicht Museum, Vienna, opens at the Amon Carter Museum, Fort Worth, Texas, travels to Asia and ends at the M.I.T. Museum in 2019. Thames and Hudson Publisher. Over 100 photographers will participate.Photographer has 5 images represented.
3 Examples of Shelby's 4 x 5 Polaroids traveling with Polaroid exhibition.
The McCord Museum, Montreal, Canada
June 11th - Sept. 15th, 2019
One of many sites for The Polaroid Project.
Oct. 11 - February 2nd
M.I.T. Museum
Cambridge, MA
Due to the monumental size of the
Exhibition venue to be shown in two parts.
Part 11 March 9th - June 21, 2020
MIT Polaroid Exhibit TV Link Spring 2020 MIT Polaroid Exhibit March 2020
Additional 4x5 Polaroid Works by Shelby Lee Adams
2017 "Subjective Objective: A Century of Social Photography," The Zimmerli Art Museum at Rutgers University, catalogue and group exhibition, one photograph in exhibition and catalogue, Brunswick, NJ
Subjective Objective - Photo Represented:
The Brother's Praying, 1993
Lloyd Deane with grandchildren, photographed in the 90's with many grandchildren holding 4x5 Polaroids, HardShell Cannie Creek.
Catalogue with one image represented, "The Extended Moment, 50 Years of Collecting at the National Gallery of Canada, Ann Thomas, 2018
Additional Folio in Permanent Collection.
Photo represented:
Bradley Shell, Fire Handling, age 85, photo made 1987
Louisville Photo Biennial, photo exhibit Fall 2017-Jan.1, 2018
The March 2017 Issue of Portfolio Magazine Naples has featured 10 pages on Shelby's work including a new interview with Ara Hawkins.
Quote from text: "People proudly say to me, “You come back, others don’t.” My return trips bring and help develop confidence and recognition to those I know. Many in the hollers do not receive visitors. It is the groundedness, in these salt-of-the-earth people, that I love so much. They with so little, make do, survive and sustain themselves now for generations. Most are a generous people, honest and open with me because I do not betray those I photograph. I honor their beliefs and do not embarrass them in my pictures and publications. This is an earned trust developed from years of returning, and that returning keeps opening new doors for me. The isolation and atmosphere of our mountains sometimes creates appearances of another time and place, when we are an integrated and diversified part of America."
—Shelby Lee Adams
Dec. 2016, Monograph, "There was a whole collection made: Photography from Lester and Betty Guttman," Edited by Laura Letinsky and Jessica Moss, 4 images in collection, 2 images reproduced in book.
Published by Smart Museum of Art, University of Chicago, Chicago, IL
"The Home Funeral, 1990", as reproduced in, "There was a whole collection made."
Installation photo at Fralin Museum, University of Virginia, Charlottesville, VA,
Exhibit Title: Casting Shadows, April 2016
Two photos featured.
Published 2015, Editor Michele M. Penhall, Compilation of photo works from the University of New Mexico Art Museum, University of New Mexico Press, One image reproduced below.
Fire-handler Bradley Shell, 85 years old.
Harlan Co. 1987
Published in "Stories from the Camera."
Brandon holding 4x5 Polaroid just made of him with his puppy. 1990's
In a time when the world has become a global village and America a global nation, there is one place where things are largely as they used to be. Protected by mountains, largely ignored by modern industry and developers, Appalachia is America’s first and last frontier. Encompassing more than 195,000 square miles in thirteen states, it possesses the least understood and most under appreciated culture in the United States.
Above: Photo of photographer's grandparents eating watermelon and The Joseph Family on right.
Published in The Appalachians.
From photographer's 6 page biography included in The Appalachians.
A beautifully produced companion volume to the PBS documentary narrated by Naomi Judd,
The Appalachians fills the void in information about the region, offering a rich portrait of its history and its legacy in music, literature, and film.
The Appalachians fills the void in information about the region, offering a rich portrait of its history and its legacy in music, literature, and film.
Produced 2004, Book and DVD, Random House, NYC, Film Nationally Shown.
Photographer has over 30 images illustrating book and film.
Collaborative performance at Roulette, Brooklyn, NY, Feb. 2014
Ear Heart Music presented the Aeolus Quartet and Shelby Lee Adams
performing, "Appalachian Polaroids," a classical form of music written and composed by Steven Snowden with the Appalachian voice of Shelia Kay Adams [no relation to photographer], this work was inspired by Shelby's photography. Shelby's slides accompanied the performance
by the Aeolus Quartet.
by the Aeolus Quartet.
Photo above by Howard Zoubek
Shelby Rattlesnake Serpent Handling with Wayne Riddle, 1987
Beech Fork
Exhibition at Salisbury University, "The 4th Generation."
May 2013
Salisbury, Maryland
Spring 2013, GQ Style Japan, Tokyo
Selected by Harmony Korine, film director
Photo "The Rambo Boys," 1987
To explicitly create new possibilities in old traditions is a necessary
calling. To have the courage and daring to redefine yourself with your people
in your own culture is the challenge. Expanding perspectives, discovering new
ways of seeing, and broadening our thinking are essential. Sometimes amid utter
chaos, reality opens its windows and reveals its infinite expansiveness to us
for only a moment. But in that brief span of time, we can see the world as it
is, without making disparaging distinctions.
Shelby Lee Adams
We Are Still One People
2013
Photo District News, NYC
Feb. 2012
5 page spread with photographers text.
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Slanted, #19, 2012, German publication, special issue,
"Super Families," International Invitational, 7 photographs, 4 pages represented.
Click on above image for slide show only.
Click on above image for slide show only.
Lloyd Dean with Brother Lewis,
First published, Slanted.
Hite Art Institute, Exhibition and catalogue,
University of Louisville
Louisville, Kentucky, 2012
1 exhibition print with one mentor's photograph from the collection.
Paul Paletti exhibited portrait of Shelby Lee Adams as his mentor. Excerpt from his statement:
"Shelby Lee Adams' photographs have always affected me with their depth of feeling and straight-forward character. These are Shelby's artworks, but also portraits in the truest sense, going far beyond the surface."
"I have accompanied Shelby several times on his visits to people living in Eastern Kentucky. These are "his people," and it has been a privilege for me to observe, learn and understand how he has built relationships with these families over the last thirty six years."
Paul Paletti
Catalogue of the Hyland Collection of American Photography,
By Way Of These Eyes.
By Way Of These Eyes.
Illustrating Christopher Hyland's personal photography collection and exhibition,
Summer 2012, Bath, Great Britain, 3 photos reproduced in catalogue and exhibited,
with Robert Mapplethorpe, Sally Mann, Robert and Shana ParkeHarrison, Deborah
Luster, among others.
Installation photo, partial view of exhibition with Catherine Edelman Gallery, Chicago
Spring 2012
2012 Juror for annual exhibition and publication, "Path."
Athens Photographic Project
[above]
[above]
[Our mission is to promote mental health recovery by providing the opportunity for community members living with mental illness to express themselves creatively through photography.]
Athens, Ohio
"Photographers, Writers, and the American Scene, Visions of Passage," By James L. Enyeart, Arena Editions, Santa Fe, NM
Photographer has 6 photos in book and traveling exhibition.
Photo above: Shrunken heads made by the Jivaro tribe of Eastern Ecuador, also photographed Civil War medical field kits, Medical specimen The Angular Vein, 1993, among other pieces in Mutter collection.
The College of Physicians of Philadelphia, Penn.
Book published 2002, Blast Books, NYC
1976, Shelby pulling Polaroids with subjects. Roxanne, KY
Sha-Sha, 2003
Holding open "Appalachian Lives," to her photo published by University Press of Mississippi in 2003.
#55 Winter 2012, Rurality Now, International Farmers Life - Theme of issue.
"Private" publication, 6 images represented, Paris
#98 LensWork, Jan. - Feb. 2012
Paper Edition
Cover image, portfolio of 17 additional photos represented.
In depth feature interview with Brooks Jensen.
LensWork Publishing, Anacortes. WA
LensWork DVD Audio Interview and Slide Show, published Feb. 2012
Contains 35 min. interview, new unpublished Color and Black and White photos.
Photo District News, PDN, NYC, Feb. 2012
Edited text from "Salt and Truth."
Portfolio of 8 images published, text and Internet site.
"Garden & Gun" Magazine, March 2012 Issue
Interview with Dean King, two images represented.
One page
Charleston, South Carolina
Taught Master class for 1 week, May 2011
Vol. I, Premier Issue of new Southern Photography Magazine, "SouthXSoutheast,"
"Salt and Truth" essay by John Bennette, portfolio of 12 images represented,
Pond House Publishing, Molena, GA, 2011
Full Page Portfolio from "salt and truth," Shelby's 4th Book.
New York Times - Sunday Review Section - Nov. 13, 2011
Original scans from 4X5 Polaroids made before exposing film with Steve and Francis, 2004
Holly Bush, Kentucky
Final image published in, "salt and truth."
Shelby signing books at Fahey/Kline Gallery, L.A. 2003
"From Polaroid To Impossible," Barbara Hitchcock, Guest Curator, Rebekka Reuter, Chief Curator, Masterpieces of Instant Photography - The Westlicht Collection, WestLicht. Schauplatz fur Fotografie, exhibition and publication, Pub. Hatje Cantz, two photographs in exhibition, one in publication, Vienna, Austria, 2011
One of a kind Polaroids from Hooterville, 1980's - 90's.
[4x5 Type 52 Polaroid film.]
Collection of Polaroids
Mimi, 1993
YouTube Video Posted May 2016
Presentation at Harvard University, Fogg's Morgan Center,
2006
Steven Seagal personally selected several of Shelby's photographs to be featured as title and end of film background photos. Film made on location in and around Hazard, KY. 1997
2011 Photo Book for students, authors: Barbara London and Jim Stone.
Indoor Lighting example, "The Napier's Living room, 1989" for students to study, from Second Edition of "Digital Photo," 2011 edition.
Prentice Hall/Pearson, Publishers
Black and White Magazine featured Shelby Lee Adams photo on cover with 10 page portfolio section and article in Issue #81, March 2011. Renee Jacobs, writer and photographer, came to KY for June Guggenheim Party and did interviews and story titled: "Portraits From Appalachia."
© Ross Periodicals, 2010
Featured photo on cover, "Girls in Onion Patch," 2004, Hooterville, KY
Book: The Mercy Project, Created and Curated by James Whitlow DelanoPublisher: Mado-sha, 2010
Tokyo
"Jane with Diddles," represented.
Shelby viewing his first 30 x 40 inch digital archival print, scanned from the original 4x5 negative.
Matched to his traditional printing style. Produced October 2010. All Digital Prints will be made in editions of 7 with one artist proof.
Above, "The Brother's Praying," 1993.
Shelby photographed with commissioned digital 30x40 inch print, edition of 7, at the Ogden Museum of Southern Art, New Orleans, LA
Photo Title: "Lloyd Dean with Family and Coal Truck," '02.
October 2012
Above, "The Brother's Praying," 1993.
Photo Title: "Lloyd Dean with Family and Coal Truck," '02.
October 2012
Publication from Hereford Photo Festival, Oct.-Nov, 2010United Kingdom
Jeff Waters, talented musician from Burlington, NCrequested the use of my photo, "The Old Couple at Stenger's Cafe," for his new CD released
July 2010. Stenger's Cafe was located in the "Over the Rhine District," Cinti. OH, an Appalachian inner-city community I photographed in the late 70's - through the 1980's.
[The photo above was made in 1981, on the day this couple married and was celebrating.]
This photo became their cherished wedding picture.
San Francisco Art Institute, April 2010Slide Presentation and Discussion
Smithsonian Magazine, March 2010, Revisit the making of"The Home Funeral," 1990 - Essay and photographs.
Internet site - Comments
Lecture "Appalachia: A Healing Perspective"Feb. 2010
Adrian College / Exhibition/ Lecture- December 2009Adrian, Michigan
Cecil College Poster/One person exhibit/Mountain MusiciansAug. 30th - Oct.3rd, '09 - Elkton, MD
Shelby reviewing portfolio's at North Light Photographic Workshops Photostock 2009
Petoskey, Michigan - Photographer Bill Schwab
Shelby - Wet Plate Process
Photo by Bill Schwab
Summer exhibition announcement 2009 - Fahey/Kline Gallery, LA
Shelby celebrating his 58Th birthday with friends and photo subjects, Mimie and Hazel. Oct. '08Photographer M. Baxter
Presentation House Gallery, Fall '08Book and Exhibition, 1 print
Vancouver
James and Shelby, '08Photographer Baxter
Photography text book, "A Short Course in Photo," Jim Stone and Barbara London
Published '08 with Digital Version '09
The Napier's Living Room, '89, Featured in book above.
Decordova Museum, Lincoln, Mass. 2008Book and group exhibition - two photos represented.
"Photographic Perspectives of Children"
2006 Publication for Hereford Photography Festival, UKportfolio and text represented, lecture and participant in Festival.
Theme - Defining Modern Documentary
Shawnee State University Lecture Poster
Photo as reproduced in Phaidon Photo Collection Book, London, 1997
Fort Collins, CO, Exhibition, Colorado State University
"Thus men forgot that ALL Deities reside in the human breast."
—William Blake
"Shelby Adams is a portrait photographer; he aims for the essence of what it is to be human. He finds it in his subjects, and evokes a wide spectrum of often emotional responses.
—Paula Bard
When "Appalachian Portraits" was published in 1993, I produced two sets of limited edition book/print editions of 25 each, each with an 8x10 inch signed print.One edition of 25 with "The Jacob Girls", '87 print.
One edition of 25 with "Brice and Crow on Porch", '92 print.
All are signed and numbered on the title page of each hardback book and each print is signed and archivally printed.
Brewer and Cantelmo made the custom slip cased gold embossed book/print cases.
They have only been sold over the years by word of mouth.
No longer available.
The Jacob Girls, '87
Brice and Crow on Porch, '92
The Dignity of Shelby Lee Adams's "Disturbing" Family Photographs, Larry Vonalt
Studies in American Culture, 29.2 Oct. 2006
Essay, 5 photographs, plus Cover,
Editor Robert McDonald , Virginia Military Institute
Jane and Shelby studying Polaroid, Oct.'07Photographer Fraser
Jane, Oct.'07
"Foundations of Art and Design"
Lois Fichner-Rathus
2008 Comprehensive College Text Book
Thomsom/Wadsworth Publishers
Belmont, Ca.
"Leddie with Children", '90 Reproduced.
June 2007 Issue "View Camera"Featured cover and portfolio.
John [cover subject] on 90th birthday, holding "View Camera" with Shelby.Photographer Fraser
Slone granddaughters hold "View Camera" to grandmother's portrait, '07
Martha and Kizzie holding "View Camera" Summer '07,both were subjects in photograph "The Purse".
Paul Paletti Gallery Announcement, Summer 2007
Louisville, Kentucky
"Perhaps the fact that so many people accepted me so openly made the difference; I knew their stories, their life experiences and we just talked, shared, and made photographs."
Shelby Lee Adams
Benny holding his exhibition photograph with grandson, 2007
Boy [Tim] watching, 2007Lloyd Dean's Porch
Excellence Award, Black and White Magazine
6 images published, Aug. 2007
5 images published with text, 1992
1992
December 12, 1993
"A book to be lived with, not merely scanned, Appalachian Portraits is both art and documentary. It is an unforgettable book, as Harvard's Robert Coles says, of "unsettling intensity."
John B. Stephenson, president of Berea College, 1993
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Courier Journal, 2007
July 1998 Published after second book, "Appalachan Legacy," was released.
Writer and interviews, Rhonda Reeves, Lexington, Ky
You can't go backhome...to the old forms and systems of things which once seemed everlasting but which are changing all the time—back home to the escapes of time and memory.
—Thomas Wolfe
Shelby Adams' Appalachia is a disappearing world far removed, a swinging bridge or a nearly forgotten coal road away. However for anyone from the region, the power of his images lies in the shadows cast by an oblique sun across a mountain ridge. The faces are familiar. His work shows the mountain way — that life is a struggle, that there is a reward for the faithful and that strong character results in steadfastness and contentment.
—Susan Saylor YearyPublisher
"And that's the story with most of "The Guard dogs" of Appalachian Studies, as you aptly name them. A book as corrosive as Adams' makes the culturally pious confront their own expectations, and it's completely humiliating in many cases, so they lash out and accuse the photographer of an agenda which is in fact their own secret feat."
"And that's the story with most of "The Guard dogs" of Appalachian Studies, as you aptly name them. A book as corrosive as Adams' makes the culturally pious confront their own expectations, and it's completely humiliating in many cases, so they lash out and accuse the photographer of an agenda which is in fact their own secret feat."
J.W, Willimson
Appalachian State University
Except from E Mail to Rhonda Reeves
July 23, 1998
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1993, Barbara P. Norfleet, Author, Publisher Godine, Boston, 1 photograph.
As reproduced paired opposite with Eugene Smiths, The Spanish Village, 1950
The Home Funeral, 1990
Photo also placed in Harvard University Collection.
Hort Collins holding "Appalachian Portraits, '93, to his and mother's photos.
Nora holding "Appalachian Legacy", 1998, open to her two photos.
Nora's Bedroom, 1995
Family viewing book dummy before publication, 2002"Appalachian Lives," 2003
Studying Polaroids with Wade for photo. "Wade," '05Photographer Porzak
Making photograph "Paul with Rabbit," '05Photographer Oestervang
Bud Collins receiving family photograph, '05Photographer Oestervang
Tokyo's "Visual ID," published a 30 page photo spread with text titled, "Embracing Appalachians."2001
Childer's Family viewing Polaroids, 1976Photographer Kaprinski
Photographing at Sherman's Home, '06Photographer Gent
Viewing Polaroids with Arch, as James walks into photo, '05Photographer Porzak
"LensWork," No.27 - Jan. 2000Interview and Portfolio
Boy in photo "Appalachian Dracula with Granny," 1993,holding poster from Finland Exhibit 2000.
Contact sheet showing different 4x5 film exposures."James and Clapper," 2006
Wanda viewing coated Polaroids while drying, before Polaroids aregiven to subjects.
Dan Slone and Shelby holding "ArtForm" publication. '02
Finland Catalogue '00
Hamilton University Poster '06
"Appalachian Dracula with Granny" 1993Switzerland Announcement
The Netherlands, magazine
Amerika, Dutch Magazine, published 1999, 10 pages-text and photos.
NEA Survey Grant & Publication.
One of 7 photographers.
Wendy Ewald - Director
Gnomon Press, publisher- Frankfort, KY
Rapoport Printing
Robert Coles - Forward
Loyal Jones - Introduction
Photos made 1975, Arlie and Crow Caudill.
Arlie, 1978
The Books:
"Appalachian Portraits," '93The University Press of Mississippi, Jackson
Released in hardback and paper editions with two slip cased limited edition
print/book folios.
1 edition of 25, 8x10 inch prints with,"Brice and Crow on Porch,"92 [right].
1 edition of 25, 8x10 inch prints with, "The Jacob Girls," 87 [left].
Number 24 and 25 remain of, "The Jacob Girls."
All hardback and paper book editions - Sold Out.
"Appalachian Legacy," '98The University Press of Mississippi, Jackson,
hardback and paper editions.
Out of Print.
"Appalachian Lives," '03The University Press of Mississippi, Jackson,
Hardback only.
Text by Vickie Goldberg
salt and truth, Published by Candela Books, October 2011
Richmond Virginia,
Hardback only, reproduced with 80 tri-tone varnished images, accompanied by two numbered limited edition and signed folios produced separately in editions of 35 each.
1 limited edition with "Billy and Bethany," 2004
1 limited edition with "Frankie with Shucky Beans," 2002
[Each print, made by Shelby on 8x10 inch gelatin silver photo paper, produced 2011, toned and archivally processed.]
Student Day's. 1974, Cleveland Institute of Art.
Short Biography
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 x 5 camera, gaining and building a special trust among its rural people, who have tended to not always welcome would-be documentarians. Adams not only records their lives and hardships with great empathy, but also depicts the grace and humanity of his subjects, photographing with an ease evident in the results. Salt and Truth is Adams' fourth monograph, and presents 80 new photographs taken mostly over the past eight years. The photographs in this collection are of children and animals, of working people and of a way of life rarely glimpsed by photographers.
Shelby Lee Adams (born 1950) is an American photographer renowned for his environmental portraiture, primarily in the Appalachian Mountains of eastern Kentucky. Adams' work has been featured in four monographs: Appalachian Portraits (1993), Appalachian Legacy (1998), Appalachian Lives (2003) and Salt & Truth [2010] he was awarded a Guggenheim Fellowship among other awards. Adams' work is represented in many major permanent collections, including the Art Institute of Chicago; the International Center of Photography in New York; Musee De L'Elysee Lausanne in Switzerland; The Museum of Modern Art, New York; The National Gallery of Canada, Ottawa; Stedelijk Museum, Amsterdam; Time Life Collection, New York; Victoria and Albert Museum, London; and the Whitney Museum of American Art, New York. His most recent book is titled: "From the Heads of the Hollers," GOST Books, London, 2023.
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