J. Sybylla Smith, In Conversation with Holly Lynton
Episode #49, Summary
Bare Handed utilizes traditional craftsmanship as a portal into the rich complexities of culture, history, and art in rural America and the deep South.
Episode Notes
Holly Lynton melds form, content, and meaning in her strikingly beautiful images, capturing the lives of those providing our sustenance, while protecting our land. Lynton’s compositional framing, lush palette, textural tones, and transformative gestures craft a meditative beauty. Accompanying essays provide context for cultural contradictions, associations, and representations — speaking to the role art has played to perpetuate or reveal them.
In this conversation, Holly discusses, among other things:
Cultural visual memory
Being delighted
Following the fantastical
Authentic curiosity
Trusting yourself
Photographers' responsibility in regard to representation
Fate & faith
Pressure to make something new
Returning as a practice
Referenced in the episode
Lost in a meditation: Rural American life – in pictures, The Guardian
On the Basis of Art: 150 Years of Women at Yale
Signs of Return by Grace Elizabeth Hale
Questions of Travel by Elizabeth Bishop
Hoe Country, Alabama by Dorothea Lange
Blurred Identities: The Art and Audience of Lynching Photography
History, Photography, and Race in the South: From the Civil War to Now
Animal, Vegetable, Miracle by Barbara Kingsolver
Love Child’s Hotbed of Occasional Poetry: Poems and Artifacts by Nikky Finney
Published by L’Artiere Edizioni
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