The exceptional quality of An Old Man Has Visions results from the collaboration of Tennessee artists who worked on the project, including noted art photographer Charles Brooks, who has done photographic work for the Knoxville Museum of Art and the Frist Center; photographer Don Dudenbostel, who studied with Ansel Adams; and Laurel Breyen, senior designer at Metropulse, the award-winning Knoxville alternative weekly. The book was written by Mary Kennedy Hendershot and includes a reflective essay by Keith Hendershot, a graduate of Bennington College in Vermont. The Bunch collection is on display at the Museum of Appalachia in Norris, Tennessee.
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An Old Man Has Visions,
published in 2005 by Monroe Area Council for the Arts with support from a Rural Arts Project grant from the Tennessee Arts Commission, documents the life and work of 88-year-old woodcarver and folk artist James Bunch. Using only a pocketknife and the occasional handsaw and working from memory, James Bunch created a remarkable collection following his retirement in 1980 to care for his ailing wife, Harriet. Mr. Bunch is described as an extraordinary artist by Dr. Robert Cogswell, Director of Folk Life for the Tennessee Arts Commission, in his introduction to the book.
