Larry Schwarm: Kansas Farmers
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Larry Schwarm Kansas Farmers
Edited by Kate Meyer with a foreward by Nancy Kasselbaum Baker
In the landscape of the American imagination the Kansas farmer looms large, an icon of midwestern diligence and bounty.
But just as the state’s seemingly flat horizon denotes earthly riches, the Kansas farmer contains multitudes.
The photographs by Larry Schwarm capture this world in all its depth and diversity, conveying in breadth and detail the grit and mystery, the art and science, of farming in Kansas.
The outgrowth of a collaborative study of crop production, farming practices, and land use in Kansas, this volume looks into the larger questions the study raised: why farmers choose to farm and what that life entails.
Larry Schwarm, distinguished professor of photography in the School of Art, Design, and Creative Industries at Wichita State University, hails from a farming family with a century-long relationship to the land, and his photographs reflect a keen sense of both the beauty and hardship of the farmer’s life.
Taken in the midst of a record-long drought, they picture the age-old industry caught up in the drama of the changing climate—Kansas farmers and ranchers tending crops and animals while working the earth in an ever-shifting balance with nature.
As documentary and fine art, these exquisite photographs and accompanying commentary speak to the ageless nature of farming and the pressing questions confronting the present-day farmer in Kansas.
Hardcover; 128 pages
ISBN: 978-0700626557
About the Photographer
Larry Schwarm received his MFA from the University of Kansas. He taught at Emporia State University before joining the WSU faculty as Distinguished Professor of Photography in 2013. His work has appeared in many publications, including the monograph, Larry Schwarm: On Fire, published by Duke University in 2003.
He has an extensive exhibition record and has photographs in the collections of the Smithsonian American Art Museum, Duke University, Library of Congress, Los Angeles Museum of Art, Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art, Philadelphia Museum of Art, San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, Wichita Art Museum, WSU’s Ulrich Museum of Art, and many others.
About the Editor
Kate Meyer is a curator of works on paper at the Spencer Museum of Art, University of Kansas, Lawrence.
About Nancy Kassebaum Baker
Nancy Kassebaum Baker, was a U.S. Republican politician who was the first woman to represent Kansas in the U.S. Senate and was the first woman ever elected to a full term in the Senate without her husband having previously served in Congress.
She served from 1978 (where she was the only woman in the Senate at that time), till 1997.
She studied political science at the University of Kansas and diplomatic history at the University of Michigan.
Kassebaum Baker was instrumental in the creation of the Tallgrass Prairie National Preserve, comprising 10,894 acres in the Flint Hills.
Edited by Kate Meyer with a foreward by Nancy Kasselbaum Baker
In the landscape of the American imagination the Kansas farmer looms large, an icon of midwestern diligence and bounty.
But just as the state’s seemingly flat horizon denotes earthly riches, the Kansas farmer contains multitudes.
The photographs by Larry Schwarm capture this world in all its depth and diversity, conveying in breadth and detail the grit and mystery, the art and science, of farming in Kansas.
The outgrowth of a collaborative study of crop production, farming practices, and land use in Kansas, this volume looks into the larger questions the study raised: why farmers choose to farm and what that life entails.
Larry Schwarm, distinguished professor of photography in the School of Art, Design, and Creative Industries at Wichita State University, hails from a farming family with a century-long relationship to the land, and his photographs reflect a keen sense of both the beauty and hardship of the farmer’s life.
Taken in the midst of a record-long drought, they picture the age-old industry caught up in the drama of the changing climate—Kansas farmers and ranchers tending crops and animals while working the earth in an ever-shifting balance with nature.
As documentary and fine art, these exquisite photographs and accompanying commentary speak to the ageless nature of farming and the pressing questions confronting the present-day farmer in Kansas.
Hardcover; 128 pages
ISBN: 978-0700626557
About the Photographer
Larry Schwarm received his MFA from the University of Kansas. He taught at Emporia State University before joining the WSU faculty as Distinguished Professor of Photography in 2013. His work has appeared in many publications, including the monograph, Larry Schwarm: On Fire, published by Duke University in 2003.
He has an extensive exhibition record and has photographs in the collections of the Smithsonian American Art Museum, Duke University, Library of Congress, Los Angeles Museum of Art, Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art, Philadelphia Museum of Art, San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, Wichita Art Museum, WSU’s Ulrich Museum of Art, and many others.
About the Editor
Kate Meyer is a curator of works on paper at the Spencer Museum of Art, University of Kansas, Lawrence.
About Nancy Kassebaum Baker
Nancy Kassebaum Baker, was a U.S. Republican politician who was the first woman to represent Kansas in the U.S. Senate and was the first woman ever elected to a full term in the Senate without her husband having previously served in Congress.
She served from 1978 (where she was the only woman in the Senate at that time), till 1997.
She studied political science at the University of Kansas and diplomatic history at the University of Michigan.
Kassebaum Baker was instrumental in the creation of the Tallgrass Prairie National Preserve, comprising 10,894 acres in the Flint Hills.