Welcome:
The Disfarmer Project is dedicated to preserving the legacy of the great American portrait photographer Mike Disfarmer (1884-1959). Please browse our website for news and information about Disfarmer, and visit our store to purchase Disfarmer prints and books. A portion of the profits from the sales of prints will be donated to non-profit organizations in Cleburne County.
We are grateful for the ongoing support from the community of Heber Springs, Arkansas, for this historical reclamation project, and have made a commitment to give back to this community. This website also serves as a resource for community and cultural events in Cleburne County.
An important part of The Disfarmer Project involves the collecting of oral history. For those of you fortunate enough to remember Disfarmer, please contact us to arrange an interview.
DISFARMER NEWS:
Gladstone Gallery: Idle Youth
An exhibition curated by Russell Ferguson. Including the work of an eclectic group of fifteen artists of different generations, the exhibition is organized around overlapping themes of aspiration, sensitivity, and frustration...
....The work ranges from Disfarmer's haunting mid-century Arkansas portraits to Arden's found-footage video of Canadian hockey fans rioting; from Shaw's paintings of a boarded-up youth club to Everberg's of a shiny and empty coffee shop. MORE
Dan Hurlin : Everyday Uses for Sight No. 6: Disfarmer
Everyday Uses for Sight No. 6: Disfarmer, premiering in February 2009 at St. Ann's Warehouse, Brooklyn, NY , is a piece of Puppet Theater that examines the contradictions in the life of an American hermit. Alone but not despairing, longing but not lonely, Disfarmer is represented by a series of puppets, each an exact reprint of the last, except 2 inches smaller. During the course of the play, Disfarmer shrinks like the rest of rural America, until he is completely gone, and we are left with the quiet and nervous expectancy of standing perfectly still for a long exposure. MORE
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The Disfarmer Book: Holiday Book Reviews!
The New York Times Book Review
The Wall Sreet
Journal Holiday Book Guide
Learn about Disfarmer:
A brief biography of Disfarmer by noted author Rick Woodward may be found here.
News articles and reviews concerning Disfarmer can be found here.
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