Becoming disfarmer
By: edited by Chelsea Spengemann ; essays by Gil Blank, Tanya Sheehan, Chelsea Spengemann
Contributors: Spengemann, Chelsea, contributor; Sheehan, Tanya, 1976- contributor; Blank, Gil, contributor; Neuberger Museum of Art
Published: 2014
Language: eng
Number of pages: 178
ISBN-13: 9780979562983
Subjects: Portrait photography; Commercial photography; Vernacular photography; Exhibitions
Description: This book uses a 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 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at the same time and in the same region as Disfarmer and album pages like those for which Disfarmer's photographs were originally made.
Notes: Exhibition Becoming Disfarmer organized by the Neuberger Museum of Art of Purchase College, State University of New York and curated by Chelsea Spengemann, from November 9, 2014 to March 22, 2015.

Includes bibliographical references (pages 173-175).