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The True Meaning of Pictures
Canadian filmmaker Jennifer Baichwal, director of the acclaimed Paul Bowles documentary LET IT COME DOWN, trains her eye on yet another artist of uncompromising vision in her film THE TRUE MEANING OF PICTURES. For over 30 years, Shelby Lee Adams has ... Canadian filmmaker Jennifer Baichwal, director of the acclaimed Paul Bowles documentary LET IT COME DOWN, trains her eye on yet another artist of uncompromising vision in her film THE TRUE MEANING OF PICTURES. For over 30 years, Shelby Lee Adams has photographed the impoverished mountain dwellers of his native eastern Kentucky, earning critical acclaim for his stark black& white portraits of Appalachian life: the ill-fortuned Napier family, who have buried 10 children and live without plumbing or electricity; the outlawed Holiness Pentecostal Church, whose members drink strychnine and handle rattlesnakes during their religious ceremonies. But Adams` provocative work has also garnered a fair share of controversy--critics charge that his photographs exploit their subjects, perpetuate stereotypes about the rural poor, or are sometimes staged by Adams for greater emotional impact. Baichwal`s thought-provoking documentary examines these complex moral questions about the nature of art through interviews with Adams` admirers and detractors, samples of his extraordinary work, and footage of the photographer revisiting Kentucky and meeting with some of his most famous subjects.
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