Nashville Portraits: Photographs by Jim McGuire
January 26 - March 14, 2010
Like many things in my life, the collection of photographs called The Nashville Portraits began quite accidentally. From a young age, I was drawn to hillbilly music, to the sounds, the emotion, the honesty, and then of course to the people who made it. I can’t remember what I had for lunch yesterday, but I can still remember what the room smelled like when I walked in and heard Hank Snow’s voice coming from those ratty speakers at a Boy Scout camp in New Jersey, 1953. Discovering country music changed my life in ways I couldn’t have imagined.
Over the past thirty-five years, I have had the good fortune to have met, photographed, and befriended many of my musical heroes. The first musician portraits I shot are in this series. John Hartford, David Bromberg, and Vassar Clements were the first...all shot late one night in 1972 after a gig in New York. The hand painted canvas background I used that night was barely dry and is the same one used in all these portraits, even today.
Most of us have a drawer full of snapshots that remind us of the good times. These are some of mine.
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