Photographic Material
name: label: Collection Creator
content: Hedges, Jimmy, 1942-2014
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content: Jimmy Hedges papers and Rising Fawn Folk Art Gallery records
physdesc: label: Extent
content: 7.9 Linear Feet (Boxes 16-30, 34-35)
label: Extent
content: 7.79 Gigabytes (ER20-ER35)
unitdate: label: Date
content: circa 1990-2011
dataSource: label: Archival Repository
content: Archives of American Art
identifier: label: Identifier
content: AAA.hedgjimm, Series 8
objectType: label: Type
content: Archival materials
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content: Gigabytes
arrangement: label: Arrangement
content: Photographs of Artists and Artwork are arranged alphabetically by name of artist, followed by photograph albums containing multiple artists, and photographs of artwork arranged alphabetically by subject. Event, travel, and personal photographs are arranged alphabetically by subject.
scopecontent: label: Scope and Contents
content: Photographic material includes thousands of color photographs, digital photographs, and a few slides taken by Jimmy Hedges to document his visits with artists, studios, works of art, exhibitions, art fairs, other events, and travel. Hedges visited the homes and studios of hundreds of outsider and folk artists and photographs of these visits include snapshots of Hedges with the artist, their work spaces, and individual works of art. Of note are extensive photographs of Georgia Blizzard, Howard Finster, Homer Green, Bessie Harvey, Danny Hoskinson, Paul Lancaster, A.J. Mohammed, Charlie Simmons, Jimmy Lee Sudduth, Mose Tolliver, and Purvis Young. Also found are several photograph albums containing photographs of multiple artists. The 2018 addition contains further material on Purvis Young.

Photographs of events include several events and art fairs, including extensive documentation of the "Folk Fest" in Atlanta, "Intuit" art show in Chicago, and "Outsider Art Fair" in New York. Travel and personal photographs document Hedges's regional sightseeing, unidentified artist and art gallery visits, performances, and images of Lookout Mountain, Georgia.