Blythe Jameson

In this recording, photographer Blythe (Peggy) Jameson, describes her two projects and gives over prints and negatives. The first is The Face of AIDS in Kentucky, taken in the late 1990s, and part of a grant received from the state of Kentucky. Blythe photographed a range of Kentuckians living with AIDS. Bob Morgan helped her find some of her subjects. The second project, born of the first, is her Fayum portraits, based on the Ptolemaic mummy portraits, sitters were encourage to think about the face they would want to be seen for eternity.