| Driftless: Photographs from Iowa Contributor(s): Frazier, Danny Wilcox (Author) |
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ISBN: 082234145X ISBN-13: 9780822341451 Publisher: Duke University Press OUR PRICE: $42.75 Product Type: Hardcover Published: October 2007 Annotation: ""Driftless" is Frazier's document about rural Iowa. His home. . . . Years of working, walking, photographing, carefully making notes, names, places. . . . Inhabitants: Farmers, Migrant Workers, their families, Hunters, Churches, Trailers, Storms, Open Fields, Sunday Night. . . . Passionate photographs without sentimentality. His work reaches out: let me tell your story, it is important. Frazier's work will survive--his book will be the foundation for more to come. . . ."--Robert Frank, prize judge "I wanted to explore the lives of the people who stay, who are casualties of the growing economic divide that separates America's rural and metropolitan classes. Having lived in Iowa all my life, these forgotten communities are part of my own history."--Danny Wilcox Frazier |
| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - Photography | Subjects & Themes - Regional (see Also Travel - Pictorials) - Photography | Collections, Catalogs, Exhibitions - General - Photography | Individual Photographers - General |
| Dewey: 779.997 |
| LCCN: 2007010631 |
| Series: Center for Documentary Studies/Honickman First Book Prize in Photography |
| Physical Information: 0.6" H x 9.64" W x 12.8" (2.18 lbs) 120 pages |
| Themes: - Cultural Region - Upper Midwest - Cultural Region - Heartland - Geographic Orientation - Iowa - Cultural Region - Midwest |
| Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
| Publisher Description: Winner of the third biennial Center for Documentary Studies/Honickman First Book Prize Robert Frank, Prize Judge In Driftless, Danny Wilcox Frazier's dramatic black-and-white photographs portray a changing Midwest of vanishing towns and transformed landscapes. As rural economies fail, people, resources, and services are migrating to the coasts and cities, as though the heart of America were being emptied. Frazier's arresting photographs take us into Iowa's abandoned places and illuminate the lives of those people who stay behind and continue to live there: young people at leisure, fishermen on the Mississippi, veterans on Memorial Day, Amish women playing cards, as well as more recent arrivals: Lubavitcher Hasidic Jews at prayer, Latinos at work in the fields. Frazier's camera finds these newcomers while it also captures activities that seemingly have gone on forever: harvesting and hunting, celebrating and socializing, praying and surviving. This collection of photographs is a portrait of contemporary rural Iowa, but it is also more that that. It shows what is happening in many rural and out-of-the-way communities all over the United States, where people find ways to get by in the wake of closing factories and the demise of family farms. Taken by a true insider who has lived in Iowa his entire life, Frazier's photographs are rich in emotion and give expression to the hopes and desires of the people who remain, whose needs and wants are complicated by the economic realities remaking rural America. Poetic and dark but illuminated with flashes of insight, Frazier's stunning images evoke the brilliance of Robert Frank's The Americans. To view an image gallery, click here. |