Mike Disfarmer
type: CreativeWork
about: https://id.rijksmuseum.nl/310150725
about: https://id.rijksmuseum.nl/320126550
about: https://id.rijksmuseum.nl/320128373
about: https://id.rijksmuseum.nl/320128415
about: https://id.rijksmuseum.nl/320131298
about: https://id.rijksmuseum.nl/330137783
about: https://id.rijksmuseum.nl/330188330
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  alternate name: Portrait photography--Arkansas--Heber Springs
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  alternate name: 1920-1950
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  alternate name: Photographers--United States--20th century
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  alternate name: Portrait photographers--United States--20th century
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  alternate name: Porträttfotografi--historia--Förenta saterna
abstract: Publisher Marketing: Last year, as The New York Times has reported, a young couple from Heber Springs, Arkansas offered a collector 50 family photographs, unassuming black-and-white studio portraits dating from the mid-twentieth century. That quiet sale, which raised the possibility that there were other vintage prints of Mike Disfarmers work in area family albums, set off a competitive buying frenzy that had collectors going door to door through rural Arkansas, spending more than a million dollars on several thousand prints. Disfarmers work had originally been discovered in crates of glass-plate negatives, found by the speculator who purchased his estate. It was brought to light decades later in a series of books and exhibitions that set off consistent, continuing critical acclaim, but known only in posthumous reprints. Original Disfarmer Photographs is the first publication to present these vintage prints, made by Disfarmers own hand at the time the pictures were taken--at once family mementos and the original work of one of Americas greatest portraitists. Disfarmer spent half a century making studio portraits at pennies a picture to satisfy his rural clients, and creating a style of portraiture all his own. As one subject describes its genesis, There wasn't much of a greeting when you walked in, I'll tell you that. Instead of telling you to smile, he just took the picture. No cheese or anything.
contributor: https://id.rijksmuseum.nl/310114389
contributor: https://id.rijksmuseum.nl/310138646
contributor: https://id.rijksmuseum.nl/311187865
language: eng
name: Original Disfarmer photographs
temporal coverage: Tentoonstelling: New York, Steven Kasher Gallery 2005/09/00-2005/10/00
work example: https://id.rijksmuseum.nl/301265278

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property ID: NL-AmRIJ
value: 265278