In the early 1970s, Jack Stoddart began chronicling the last traces of an agrarian lifestyle that still existed near his home in north central Tennessee. His photos document the local Mennonite community dedicated to manual labor as well as the disappearing culture of rural Tennesseans working with mules, raising their own food and living in rustic cabins.
Stoddart joins this unique perspective with an elegant printing style in which he combines traditional silver gelatin black and white photography with sepia toning. The resulting photographs create timeless visual statements that have found their way into numerous private collections nationally and internationally. He has been exhibiting his work full-time for 30 years and his photographs can be found in the collections of The Morris Museum of Art in Augusta, GA, the Knoxville Museum of Art in Knoxville, TN and the Cheekwood Museum of Art in Nashville.
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