Nashville Portraits: Photographs By Jim Mcguire Opens at Art Museum of Western Virginia
By Megan • Jan 14th, 2008 • Category: News for Creatives (archives)“ROANOKE, VA.- The Art Museum of Western Virginia announced today that Nashville Portraits: Photographs by Jim McGuire will open to the public on January 18 and will remain on view through March 23.
Nashville Portraits showcases sixty black and white photographs selected from thousands of portraits shot over a period of more than thirty years by Jim McGuire, one of the nation’s most celebrated photographers. The exhibition documents many of the leading figures in the world of country music, from such icons as Bill Monroe, Minnie Pearl and Lester Flatt to contemporary artists like Emmylou Harris, Nanci Griffith and Marty Stuart.
A native of New Jersey – an unlikely breeding ground for a fan of “hillbilly” music – Jim McGuire moved to Nashville in 1972 to pursue his passionate interest in the music and the people who made it. Inspired by photographer Irving Penn’s portraits of tradesmen in their work clothes, he began what has become his acclaimed series of Nashville Portraits in 1974 with a photograph of singer/songwriter John Hartford. The series now includes more than a thousand images of America’s most influential singers, songwriters and musicians, often depicted with the instruments that are the tools of their trade.”
Megan is a creative producer at Wise Elephant.
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