Security “Appalachian Portfolio, 1959-1963” on exhibit at North Gate HallBERKELEY — “The Appalachian Portfolio, 1959-1963: Photographs by Andrew Stern,” a collection of black-and-white photos depicting life 50 years ago in Kentucky’s hardscrabble coal mining country, is on display through Oct. 15 at the University of California, Berkeley’s Graduate School of Journalism. It is the collection’s first West Coast showing. The exhibit, free and open to the public, features 27 of the more than 900 Appalachian photos taken by Stern, now a professor emeritus at the journalism school. After reading a January 1959 New York Times story about a tough Christmas in Appalachia, Stern felt compelled to visit Kentucky’s bleak coal mining district and record life there.”I was very excited,” Stern recalled recently, “because no one else was photographing this story.” While other documentary photographers have followed Stern’s Appalachian footsteps, most critics contend that few have matched his images’ harsh honesty and unmistakable humanity.Many of Stern’s photos appeared in “What Price Poverty?,” a Public Broadcasting System documentary that he produced in 1964. That same year, President Lyndon Johnson officially launched his trail-blazing social programs known collectively as the War on Poverty. Other photos from the collection also were included as visual… Read full this story
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