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The True Meaning of Pictures : Shelby Lee Adams’s Appalachia
Hierarchical level:Item (Accession level)Date:2002Item number (ISN):351607Type of material:Moving imagesFound in:Archives / Film, Video and Sound -
Record information – Details Fonds/collection:CANADIAN TELEVISION FUNDAccession:2004-0027Media:VideoPart:1 of 1Production date:2002Production company:Revised Short Version
Mercury Films (Appalachian Journey) Inc.Production credit:director/producer, Jennifer Baichwal; producer/photography, Nick de Pencier; editing, David WharnsbyCountry of production:cnDistributor name:Rhombus International Inc.Description:In eastern Kentucky’s Appalachian mountains, a community exists as though suspended from the rest of the world. Rejecting both modernity and mainstream America, these people live the same way they have lived for generations. They are known to outsiders as "hillbillies". Shelby Lee Adams calls them mountain people, and he has been photographing them for 30 years. THE TRUE MEANING OF PICTURES tells the story of the extraordinary people behind the photographs. <58mn 15s>Language:EnglishNotes:Detailed holdings information: -
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