Paul Kwilecki’s Photos of Decatur County, Ga.

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A Life Sold on Photography

After running the family business and shooting on the side, Paul Kwilecki sold his hardware store and spent four decades documenting Decatur County, Ga., where his family had lived for three generations.

via Lens Blog: http://lens.blogs.nytimes.com/2013/04/24/a-life-sold-on-photography/

“I am taking my 35mm camera into places around here no cameras have ever gone,” he wrote in one letter to Ansel Adams. “Into shanties, into tawdry, small-town cafes (not the Robert Frank kind, the south-Georgia, bible-belt kind), into kitchens and hallways of farm houses, and there, in the middle of things these people live with, I make their pictures.”