Item Details

contributor

Liu, Tsing

Zanish-Belcher, Tanya

Hyde, Gene

creator

Medford, Houck

date

2024

2025-07-23T15:49:51Z

2025-07-23T15:49:51Z

2025-07-23 (issued)

description

This curated catalog documents the photographic work of Houck Medford, a retired dentist turned documentary artist, whose series of platinum/palladium prints portrays abandoned farmhouses in Floyd County, Virginia. Published by the Special Collections and Archives department at Z. Smith Reynolds Library, on the campus of Wake Forest University, the catalog features twenty-one images that serve as a visual documentation on the decline of family farming and rural life in Appalachia.

format

application/pdf

72 pages

books

Permalink

http://hdl.handle.net/10339/111107

language

English

publisher

Special Collections and Archives, Z. Smith Reynolds Library, Wake Forest University

relation

Special Collections and Archives

Z. Smith Reynolds Library

Wake Forest University

rights

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Rights Statement

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subject

Abandoned buildings

Farmhouses

Floyd County (Va.)

Architecture, Domestic

Appalachian Region, Southern--Social life and customs

Documentary photography--United States

Photography, Artistic--Exhibitions

title

What Happened?: Abandoned Farmhouses in Platinum/Palladium

type

Text