For over 30 years, celebrated photographer Shelby Lee Adams has been photographing the impoverished mountain-dwellers of his native eastern Kentucky. These critically acclaimed images are widely considered to be among the most accurate and stirring representations of Appalachian life ever captured on film. Canadian filmmaker Jennifer Baichwal's provocative documentary examines the controversy that surrounds his work, raising complex moral questions about the very nature of art, through interviews with Adams' admirers and detractors, samples of his extraordinary work, and footage of the photographer revisiting some of his most famous subjects. "A documentary as haunting as the photographs that inspired it." - The Times (Canada).
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