Arts & Culture

The Photography of Marty Stuart

The Frist Center for the Visual Arts in Nashville’s 2014 exhibit, American Ballads: The Photographs of Marty Stuart, featured more than sixty black-and-white images taken over the span of Marty Stuart’s career. The photographs included everything from quiet moments with the legends (Bill Monroe, Loretta Lynn, George Jones, Willie Nelson) to everyday folks Stuart encountered on the road, as well as a series devoted to the Lakota people in South Dakota. Get a glimpse of Stuart’s work in the following slideshow.

May 7, 2014

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John R. Cash, Last Portrait, September 8, 2003, 2003. Archival pigment print.

© Marty Stuart

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J.R. Cash, Snorkle the Pig, and Theodore the Turkey on the Farm, 1982. Archival pigment print.

© Marty Stuart

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Little Jimmy Dickens, 2005. Archival pigment print.

© Marty Stuart

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Willie Nelson, 1994. Archival pigment print.

© Marty Stuart

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Willie and Waylon, 1985. Archival pigment print.

© Marty Stuart

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Willie and Waylon, 1985. Archival pigment print.

© Marty Stuart

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Miss Sharlene as Dolly Parton, 2005. Archival pigment print.

© Marty Stuart

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Queenie, Emmylou Harris, 1995. Archival pigment print.

© Marty Stuart

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Earl Scruggs, 1998. Archival pigment print.

© Marty Stuart

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Bill Monroe, Last Winter, 1995. Archival pigment print.

© Marty Stuart

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“Baby, your Grandpa was a man named Hank Williams,” Hank Williams, Jr., and his daughter, Katie, 1995. Archival pigment print.

© Marty Stuart

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Lester Flatt, Bluegrass Festival, 1975. Archival pigment print.

© Marty Stuart

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The Queen of Country Music, Kitty Wells, 1994. Archival pigment print.

© Marty Stuart

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The King of Broken Hearts, George Jones, 1997. Archival pigment print.

© Marty Stuart

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Steve Earle Talking Blues, 1995. Archival pigment print.

© Marty Stuart

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Unknown Hinson, the Country Music Dracula, 2001. Archival pigment print.

© Marty Stuart

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Loretta Lynn, Blue Kentucky Girl, 1994. Archival pigment print.

© Marty Stuart

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George Jones, Dolly Parton, and Emmylou Harris, 1994. Archival pigment print.

© Marty Stuart

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Marvin Helper at Home, 2005. Archival pigment print.

© Marty Stuart

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Connie Smith, 1997. Archival pigment print.

© Marty Stuart

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The Knoxville Girls at Dollywood, 1995. Archival pigment print.

© Marty Stuart

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Aunt Waldine, 1995. Archival pigment print.

© Marty Stuart

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Millie Black Bear, 2000. Archival pigment print.

© Marty Stuart

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Eagle Dancers, 2000. Archival pigment print.

© Marty Stuart

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