Bill Cornett Jr. under Car, Kentucky
William Gedney spent time with the Cornetts in 1964 and 1972. This mineworker’s family with twelve children lived in Appalachia, a povery-stricken region in America with a high unemployment rate. His photographs give an intimate and warm image of their 
home life. While poverty is manifest, it is nowhere presented in a voyeuristic context. Gedney’s view deviates from the sometimes stereotypical manner in which other photographers portrayed hardship in the Appalachian Mountains.