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Lake Music Festival: Folk singer Uncle Joe Orr, 95 year old farmer who lives with his wife in a cabin on a mountain top in the Blue Ridge, occasionally joins in the mountain festivals, NC
Creator
W. Eugene SmithAmerican Photographer · 1918–1978
All works by this person →W. Eugene Smith's interest in photography grew out of a boyhood passion for airplanes. His mother, herself an amateur photographer, suggested he make his own photographs of planes rather than borrow money from her to buy photos by mail. Thus began a prolific career that spanned five decades; Smith is said to have made at least twenty thousand negatives in one three-year period alone. Reacting to S
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- 1947
- Medium
- Gelatin silver print
- Culture
- American
- Department
- Photographs
- Institution
- Getty Museum
- Object ID
- 8a677c4b-dfee-425b-b761-f2e2e605cc07
Folk musician Uncle Joe Orr sitting on the steps of the front porch of a house holding a banjo upright to display handwriting on the inside of the head.
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