In Driftless, Danny Wilcox Fraziers 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 was being emptied. Fraziers arresting photographs take us into Iowas abandoned places and illuminate the lives of those people who stay behind and continue to live there. These families, linked to the heartland by generations before them, are joined by ...
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In Driftless, Danny Wilcox Fraziers 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 was being emptied. Fraziers arresting photographs take us into Iowas abandoned places and illuminate the lives of those people who stay behind and continue to live there. These families, linked to the heartland by generations before them, are joined by more recent arrivals: Lubavitcher Hasidic Jews praying, Amish women laughing together over cards, Mennonites walking down a dirt road, Latinos working in the field. Fraziers 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, Fraziers 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, Fraziers stunning images evoke the brilliance of Robert Franks The Americans.
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Very Good. Very Good condition. Very Good dust jacket. A copy that may have a few cosmetic defects. May also contain light spine creasing or a few markings such as an owner's name, short gifter's inscription or light stamp.
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Used-Like New. Winner of the third biennial Center for Documentary Studies/Honickman First Book PrizeRobert 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. '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 wrapped in complimentary Brodart dust jacket protector...
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Very Good. 2007. hardcover. Cloth, dj. Some scuffing to jacket; small loss at top of rear panel. Else fine. A nice, clean copy with pristine plates. Very Good. (Subject: Photography).
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Fine in near fine jacket. First edition, 2007. Quarto, cloth hardcover in dust jacket, heavily illustrated, clean unmarked text, Fine copy in Near Fine dust jacket, light soiling or age-toning to the dust jacket, rubbing and a bit of edgewear to the dust jacket including some creasing at the tips. Dust jacket housed in archival dust jacket protector.
