Summary
The West Virginia Division of Culture and History recently opened a new exhibit, "Thorney Lieberman: Honoring America's Coal Miners," featuring life-size, full-length photographs of coal miners by Thorney Lieberman of Charleston.
The exhibit, on display in the Balcony Gallery, consists of 18 full-size portraits and another 18 photographs in a smaller format. The full-size portraits are photographs Lieberman has taken from the tops of the miner's helmets to the tips of their boots. Between 30 and 40 photographs are taken in a grid, life-size, on 8-inch-by-10- inch film covering the entire person. He then made contact prints from the negatives and assembled them to create a full-size person. Some of the images include pictures of a miner's child.See the full content of this document
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Coal Mining Photo Exhibit Opens at Cultural Center
Most of these portraits were shot in black and white and mounted on 16-gauge hot-rolled steel sheets. The final...
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