| | BOOK FORMAT
Clth, 7 x 10 in. / 208 pgs / 180 bw. PUBLISHING STATUS
Pub Date 10/1/1996
Out of print DISTRIBUTION
D.A.P. Exclusive
Catalog: Publisher Backlist PRODUCT DETAILS
ISBN 9780944092385 TRADE
List Price: $95.00 CAD $132.00 GBP £79.00 AVAILABILITY
Not available | TERRITORY
WORLD | | THE FALL 2026 ARTBOOK | D.A.P. CATALOG  | | Preview our FALL 2026 catalog, featuring more than 500 new books on art, photography, design, architecture, film, music and visual culture.
|
| | | DisfarmerHeber Springs Portraits 1939–1946Text by Julia Scully.
 A rare photobook gem of an outsider artist's post-Depression portraits made available once moreIn Heber Springs, Arkansas, a reclusive photographer named Mike Meyer (1884–1959), known simply as “Disfarmer,” created an uncanny record of American rural life during the 1930s and 1940s. Working out of his modest studio, Disfarmer created portraits which are direct and unpretentious. Disfarmer‘s portraits of cotton farmers, tradesmen, soldiers home on leave and the extended families that made up this rural community, reveal a common bond that is rapidly disappearing in the United States. They are bold portraits, and sometimes confrontational, yet they show his sitter‘s humble grace and small-town charm. Handed down through generations and found today in the family albums of this community, Disfarmer's portraits are emblematic of the post-Depression era. These photographs, many unpublished or rarely seen, underscore his uniquely American vision of place. For this monograph of Disfarmer‘s work, Twin Palms founder Jack Woody returned to the surviving glass-plate negatives, choosing 180 for this book. A set of contact prints were made from the glass plates, and the book was printed on a sheet-fed gravure press in Kyoto. Gravure gives the images a richness and depth that evokes their time and place.
|
| | | | |
| |
| |
|
FORMAT: Clth, 7 x 10 in. / 208 pgs / 180 b&w.
LIST PRICE: U.S. $95.00
LIST PRICE: CANADA $132
GBP £79.00
ISBN: 9780944092385
PUBLISHER: Twin Palms Publishers
AVAILABLE: 10/1/1996
DISTRIBUTION: D.A.P.
RETAILER DISC: TRADE
PUBLISHING STATUS: Out of print
AVAILABILITY: Not available
TERRITORY: WORLD | D.A.P. CATALOG: lisher Backlist 0000 | PRESS INQUIRIES
Tel: (212) 627-1999 ext 217
Fax: (212) 627-9484
Email Press Inquiries: publicity@dapinc.com | TRADE RESALE ORDERS
D.A.P. | DISTRIBUTED ART PUBLISHERS
Tel: (212) 627-1999
Fax: (212) 627-9484
Customer Service: (800) 338-2665
Email Trade Sales: orders@dapinc.com |
| Disfarmer
Heber Springs Portraits 1939–1946 Published by Twin Palms Publishers.
Text by Julia Scully. A rare photobook gem of an outsider artist's post-Depression portraits made available once more In Heber Springs, Arkansas, a reclusive photographer named Mike Meyer (1884–1959), known simply as “Disfarmer,” created an uncanny record of American rural life during the 1930s and 1940s. Working out of his modest studio, Disfarmer created portraits which are direct and unpretentious. Disfarmer‘s portraits of cotton farmers, tradesmen, soldiers home on leave and the extended families that made up this rural community, reveal a common bond that is rapidly disappearing in the United States. They are bold portraits, and sometimes confrontational, yet they show his sitter‘s humble grace and small-town charm. Handed down through generations and found today in the family albums of this community, Disfarmer's portraits are emblematic of the post-Depression era. These photographs, many unpublished or rarely seen, underscore his uniquely American vision of place. For this monograph of Disfarmer‘s work, Twin Palms founder Jack Woody returned to the surviving glass-plate negatives, choosing 180 for this book. A set of contact prints were made from the glass plates, and the book was printed on a sheet-fed gravure press in Kyoto. Gravure gives the images a richness and depth that evokes their time and place.
| VIEW MORE ONLINE AT: https://www.artbook.com/9780944092385.html |
| | |
|
