Charmaine Lanham
Charmaine Lanham is a photographer and acoustic musician born on the West Coast and raised in the San Francisco Bay Area. In 1974, Lanham, alongside her husband Marty Lanham and five fellow musicians established the Station Inn as a cooperative bluegrass venue and served in its original “house band”. Lanham also pursued a career in documentary photography operating as a backstage insider during the 1980s and 1990s where she compiled a historical archive consisting of thousands of candid photographic negatives documenting artists such as Bill Monroe, Johnny Cash, June Carter Cash, and Béla Fleck. Her documentary work has been utilized in authoritative texts and has been preserved through solo public exhibitions such as Photography By Ear organized by the Tennessee Arts Commission.
In the newsletter
- No. 30 August 2002