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Timothy Lee Barnwell (born on February 17, 1955) is an American author, documentary and fine art photographer based in Asheville, NC, U.S.A. He is the author of three black and white photography books: The Face of Appalachia, On Earth's Furrowed Brow  , and Hands in Harmony.

Biography
Timothy Lee Barnwell (1955-) is a documentary and fine art photographer based in Asheville, North Carolina in the United States. Born February 17, 1955 in Franklin, NC, he lived in Madison and Buncombe Counties in North Carolina, and in Greenville, South Carolina as a youth before returning to Asheville. Mr. Barnwell graduated with honors from the University of North Carolina at Asheville with a degree in Political Science in 1977. While in college he worked as a photographer for the university’s Learning Resource Center and as Chief Photographer for the school annual, the Summit, and newspaper, the Ridgerunner. After college he worked as a photojournalist and writer for numerous publications including Mountain Living Magazine and the Arts Journal. He attended the Maine Photographic Workshop in 1978 where he studied the Zone System for large format photography and has used the 4 x 5 view camera for much of his career.

In 1980 he founded Appalachian Photographic Workshops and served as Director and photography instructor until in closed in 1988. It's roster of instructors included many of the master photographers of the medium including Cole Weston, Ernst Haas, George Tice, Galen Rowell, Freeman Patterson, Jerry Uelsmann, Robert Farber, John Shaw, Sonja Bullaty, Angelo Lomeo, Ken Marcus, John Sexton, Nancy Brown, Carson Graves, and Art Wolfe.

In 1988 he began a full-time career as a commercial photographer and photojournalist and has published over sixty articles and had thousands of photographs published in books, newspapers, journals, and advertisements. Editorial credits include Aperture, Time, Newsweek, U.S. News & World Report, American Craft, Travel South, House Beautiful, Astronomy Magazine, US Air, Billboard, American Style, Blue Ridge Country, National Parks, Sky & Telescope, Wildlife in North Carolina, Black and White Magazine, Photography in New York, Mother Jones, Fiberarts, Our State, Appalachian Heritage, Smithsonian, Ceramics Monthly, Photo District News, and Outdoor Photographer. His work was featured on the cover of LensWork issue 76 with accompanying portfolio and interview.

Publications
Mr. Barnwell has spent a lifetime exploring the southern Appalachian region, documenting the farm culture, visiting with and photographing the people of its isolated mountain enclaves and is the author of three books of documentary photography: The Face of Appalachia: Portraits from the Mountain Farm, On Earth's Furrowed Brow: The Appalachian Farm in Photographs, and Hands in Harmony: Traditional Crafts and Music in Appalachia.

Each book is available in 3 different editions: Trade Hardback, Limited Edition with clothbound embossed slipcase, and Special Edition with slipcase and mounted photographic print.

He has also been contributing photographer to dozens of books and provided principal photography for others including Asheville: A View from the Top ; Pisgah Forest and Nonconnah: The Potteries of Walter B. Stevens ; Wladimir de Terlikowski: His Life and Art.

=Selected Book Reviews=

Photography Exhibitions
Mr. Barnwell is known as a master black and white photographer and printer and his fine art photography has been included in over 65 one-man and group photographic exhibits since 1977, including three one- man shows at the SOHO Photo Gallery/NYC. Other institutions hosting shows include the Brunnenburg Museum in Italy, the Newark Museum of Art, Greenville (SC) Museum of Art, Ohio University, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, Kentucky Folk Art Center, Elon College, North Carolina Museum of History, and the Louisville Public Library. A traveling exhibit was produced from each of his three books and has traveled widely.

Permanent Collections of Museums
His photographs are included in the permanent collections of the Metropolitan Museum of Art, SOHO Photo Gallery(NYC), New Orleans Museum of Art, High Museum of Art, Mint Museum (Charlotte, NC), Greenville County (SC) Museum of Art, Asheville Art Museum , Mars Hill College, Western Carolina University, Bank of America (NCNB), Town of Jonesboro (TN), Southern Highland Craft Guild, Iris Photographic Gallery (NC), R.J. Reynolds Industries, Newark Museum of Art , and the Elon University Center for the Arts. His work is represented by the Lumiere Gallery in Atlanta.