Little Worlds: A Work in Progress

Junior walking Pet to Water, Sodom, Madison County, NC 1979

Junior walking Pet to Water, Sodom, Madison County, NC 1979

LITTLE WORLDS: A WORK IN PROGRESS EXHIBITION OPENING

  • Friday, September 8, 2017
  • 6:30pm  8:30pm
  • Fall Line Press675 Drewry Street, Suite 6Atlanta, GA 30306USA (map)

Explore Madison County, North Carolina through the eyes of Guggenhiem, NEH and NEA fellow Rob Amberg. Since moving there in 1973, writing and photographing the evolving culture and environment of this unique piece of Appalachia has been his lifetime project.

His first book, Sodom Laurel Album, is a cult classic now in its second printing and was published in 2002 by the Center for Documentary Studies at Duke and the University of North Carolina Press. His second book from Madison County, The New Road: I-26 and the Footprints of Progress in Appalachia, was published in 2009 by the Center for American Places at Columbia College Chicago. To complete the trilogy, a third book is in progress. Fall Line has been in conversation with Amberg about this third book currently titled Little Worlds.

The exhibition will feature framed prints as well as unframed working prints presented in a wall collage. Many of these images will appear in the third book, and it gives the viewer a chance to see the edit in process. The exhibition is intended to show some of the processes and decisions that go into the editing process of making a book. 

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