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PHOTOGRAPHER MONOGRAPHS

PUBLISHER
Neuberger Museum of Art

BOOK FORMAT
Hardcover, 9 x 12 in. / 192 pgs / 192 color.

PUBLISHING STATUS
Pub Date
Out of print

DISTRIBUTION
D.A.P. Exclusive
Catalog: FALL 2014 p. 32   

PRODUCT DETAILS
ISBN 9780979562983 TRADE
List Price: $60.00 CDN $70.00

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EXHIBITION SCHEDULE

Purchase, NY
Neuberger Museum of Art, 11/09/14-03/08/15

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NEUBERGER MUSEUM OF ART

Becoming Disfarmer

Edited with text by Chelsea Spengemann. Text by Gil Blank, Tanya Sheehan.

Becoming DisfarmerBecoming Disfarmer uses a compelling sequence of over 100 images to tell the story of Mike Disfarmer's vernacular portraiture and its transformation into art. This monograph features his vintage prints along with a selection of enlargements made from his negatives in the 1970s, through which his work first became known. Disfarmer's postcard-size vintage photographs are reproduced in full color to accurately convey their varied surfaces, and most of the examples are shown in the condition in which they were found, rather than as restored images. This publication also reproduces the backs of selected vintage photographs and provides transcriptions of all handwritten notes that appear on the objects. In addition, the monograph contains high-quality reproductions of newspaper pages in which Disfarmer's images appeared, locally produced historical journals that include images by other photographers who worked at the same time and in the same region as Disfarmer and album pages like those for which Disfarmer's photographs were originally made. These fascinating additions to the scholarship were collected as primary research by the editor over a three-year period and provide historical context for Disfarmer's portraits. Complete with three scholarly essays, a bibliography and exhibition history, this monograph qualifies as the most comprehensive Disfarmer publication to date.
Mike Disfarmer (1884–1959) was born Michael Meyer in Indiana, and began working as a photographer in Heber Springs, Arkansas in 1914. In addition to selling portraits made in his studio, he processed film, sold postcards and worked for hire. He was considered a mythical figure in his own lifetime for changing his surname to Disfarmer in 1939 and claiming to have originated from a tornado. His portraits--commonly considered as honest depictions of a rural population made by an eccentric outsider--have been compared with the work of masters such as August Sander and Irving Penn.

Unidentified photograph by Michael Disfarmer, ca. 1939-1946, is reproduced from Becoming Disfarmer.

PRAISE AND REVIEWS

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A disgruntled farmer who reinvented himself as a portrait photographer in dust-bowl era Arkansas, Mike Disfarmer's work remained unseen for decades, and is explored beyond the scope of vernacular photography and reconsidered as fine art.

Becoming Disfarmer

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