Ky. and S.C. nature photographer James Archambeault dies - Entrepreneur Generations

Kentucky horse farm fences. Photo by James Archambeault

Famed Kentucky and South Carolina nature photographer James Archambeault died Monday at the age of 76 in South Carolina. His wife Lee said he had become ill on Jan. 30, possibly because of his heart condition, and had been unconscious since Feb. 1, Janet Patton and Cheryl Truman report for the Lexington Herald-Leader.

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Archambeault published his first book of prints in 1982, and published five more over the years, along with a slew of calendars, postcards, and more. He was most famous for his shots of rural Kentucky and Pawleys Island, South Carolina. He helped others to see nature in a new light, his wife said. "I can’t tell you how many people have told me that they passed something and thought of Jim because his vision had taught them how to see things differently," she told Patton and Truman.

"In an interview a year ago, James Archambeault said his gift as a photographer was patience: He scouted his shot and waited for the light. Some days he got nothing. Other days were full of photographic wonder," Patton and Truman report. "Archambeault’s style was no-filter, all-film, cultivated on long periods of waiting, alone with his thoughts, for the right shot to come. Many of those shots made Kentucky seem like a place descended from the heavens, gently touched by mankind." See some of his photography at his website.

Funeral arrangements are pending.

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