Harker's Barns: Visions of an American Icon by Harker, Michael P.

Harker's Barns: Visions of an American Icon

Michael Harker drove past old barns on gravel roads and blacktop highways for years. He generally dismissed...
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Harker's Barns: Visions of an American Icon by Harker, Michael P.

Harker's Barns: Visions of an American Icon

¥7,809

Harker's Barns: Visions of an American Icon

¥7,809
Author: Michael P. Harker
Format: Paperback
Language: English

Michael Harker drove past old barns on gravel roads and blacktop highways for years. He generally dismissed them as obsolete outbuildings until November 1993, when he felt compelled to photograph a windmill in Clutier, Iowa. This single photograph launched him on a seven-and-a-half-year mission to document Iowa's barns and all they represent. The result is Harker's Barns: Visions of an American Icon.

Each of the seventy-five black-and-white images featured in Harker's Barns beautifully and heartbreakingly captures the glory and ultimate demise of one of rural America's most enduring icons. From square to round, wood to brick, Dutch to Swedish, occupied or abandoned, the barns documented in this stunning collection are a testament to a passing way of life that was once the lifeblood of Iowa and the Midwest.

Complementing Harker's photographs are vignettes by poet and writer Jim Heynen. Both whimsical and endearing, each vignette treats barns as organic and intelligent entities, reflecting the living history that can be found inside each rural structure.
Iowa's barns are disappearing and with them a way of life; Harker's Barns brilliantly documents their heritage for future generations. As Jim Heynen says, "A good photograph can maintain an old barn through blizzards and hail storms and tornadoes. It is the best support beam and wood preservative an old barn can have."



Author: Michael P. Harker, Michael Harker, Jim Heynen
Publisher: University of Iowa Press
Published: 02/12/2003
Pages: 104
Binding Type: Paperback
Weight: 1.08lbs
Size: 9.20h x 9.96w x 0.36d
ISBN: 9780877458340


Review Citation(s):
Booklist 03/15/2003 pg. 1266

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