Original Disfarmer Photographs

Mike Disfarmer, Steven Kasher, Alan Trachtenberg

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Steidl Verlag
22 May 2006

Photographs: portraits; Local history; Places in old photographs

"""Original Disfarmer Photographs"" is the first publication presenting the vintage prints of Mike Disfarmer (1884-1959), one of America's greatest portraitists. For a half century Disfarmer was the people's photographer of Heber Springs, Arkansas. He made studio portraits at pennies a picture to satisfy his rural clients, yet he was an odd genius who created a style of portraiture all his own. Until now Disfarmer has been known to the world only through prints made from negatives found years after his death. Now, with the discovery of his vintage prints, we get to see the pictures as he made them."

By: Mike Disfarmer
Edited by: Steven Kasher, Alan Trachtenberg
Imprint: Steidl Verlag
Country of Publication: Germany
Dimensions: Height: 250mm, Width: 200mm, Spine: 30mm
Weight: 300g
ISBN: 9783865211897
ISBN 10: 3865211895
Pages: 240
Publication Date: 22 May 2006
Audience: General/trade , ELT Advanced
Format: Hardback
Publisher's Status: Active

Alan Trachtenberg is the Neil Grey, Jr. Professor Emeritus of English and American Studies at Yale University. His books include The Brooklyn Bridge: Fact and Symbol (1965); The Incorporation of America: Culture and Society in the Gilded Age (1982); and Reading American Photographs: Images as History (1989). Steven Kasher is the owner of Steven Kasher Gallery, New York. He is the author of The Civil Rights Movement: A Photographic History, 1954-68 (1996).

Reviews for Original Disfarmer Photographs

"""The Disfarmer pictures are startling experiences; their subjects come out to us with the vividness and clarity of unaltered reality itself. We must wonder at the art and craft and purpose that produced such a gallery of provincial characters unforgettable in their intense inwardness and vulnerability, etched with the urgency which gives the Disfarmer pictures their aura of inscrutable drama. A distillation of an acerbic, perhaps tragic view of life with something quirky, homespun, and deeply intuitive, it's the art of Disfarmer that puts him in touch with time and place, that gives his portraits their power as singular and hence visionary documents. Alan Trachtenberg"""