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Becoming disfarmer

Title: Becoming disfarmer / edited by Chelsea Spengemann ; essays by Gil Blank, Tanya Sheehan, Chelsea Spengemann.
Author: Disfarmer, Mike, 1884-1959.
Publication: Purchase, N.Y. : Neuberger Museum of Art, 2014.

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Available - Can be used on site. Please visit New York Public Library - Schwarzman Building to submit a request in person.	Text	Use in library	MFX+ (Disfarmer) 15-1301	Schwarzman Building - Art and Architecture Room 300

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Description

178 pages : illustrations (some color); 32 cm

Summary

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at the same time and in the same region as Disfarmer and album pages like those for which Disfarmer's photographs were originally made.

Subjects

Note

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.

Bibliography (note)

Includes bibliographical references (p. 173-175).

Call Number

MFX+ (Disfarmer) 15-1301

ISBN

9780979562983
0979562988

OCLC

897205457

Author

Disfarmer, Mike, 1884-1959.

Title

Becoming disfarmer / edited by Chelsea Spengemann ; essays by Gil Blank, Tanya Sheehan, Chelsea Spengemann.

Imprint

Purchase, N.Y. : Neuberger Museum of Art, 2014.

Type of Content

text

still image

Type of Medium

unmediated

Type of Carrier

volume

Bibliography

Includes bibliographical references (p. 173-175).

Added Author

Blank, Gil.

Sheehan, Tanya, 1976-

Spengemann, Chelsea.

Neuberger Museum of Art.

Research Call Number

MFX+ (Disfarmer) 15-1301

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