Disfarmer
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CURRENTLY CLOSED
Opened Jan 27, 2009
Closed Feb 8, 2009
Opened Jan 27, 2009
Closed Feb 8, 2009
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Dan Hurlin's Disfarmer is inspired by the forty-year career (1917--1946) of portrait photographer Mike Disfarmer, who for decades shunned his family and neighbors while operating the only portrait studio for miles around Heber Springs, Arkansas. Using glass plate photography long after it was obsolete, Disfarmer built a special darkroom to house his camera, so both photographer and subject were alone in the instant the photo was taken. When 4,000 of his negatives surfaced in the 1970s, Disfarmer's photos were recognized as a stunning achievement, with their exquisite artistry, profound empathy and invaluable documentation of a vanishing way of life.
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A tornado blows through a small town, sending cars, trees, and barnyard animals flying through the air. This early image within Dan Hurlin's beautifully evocative puppet-theater piece Disfarmer, now at St. Ann's Warehouse, sets the stage for a fascinating meditation on a lonely man who becomes increasingly paranoid and withdrawn.
The piece -- which features text by Sally Oswald -- is inspired by the life and works of Mike Disfarmer, a portrait photographer in rural Arkansas during the early-mid 20th Century. He legally changed his original surname of Meyer, telling (and perhaps believing in) the story that the real Mike Meyer was swept away by a tornado as an infant, while he was deposited [...]