This month P&D presents: Disfarmer: Passion Without Emotion

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Dead for half a century, Mike Disfarmer, the eccentric portrait photographer from Heber Springs, Ark., has drawn modest yet respectful attention in recent decades. From the 1920’s to the 50’s, he photographed a steady stream of townspeople in his Main Street studio in an American Gothic style of portraiture that was singularly his own. His images, with their stripped-down, no-nonsense quality, focus directly on the individual as specimen. With his outsider’s eye, Disfarmer captured that awkwardness, and provided a record of people from a particular time and in place in America.

This talk will focus on three themes:
1- Who is this guy?
2- What makes him a genius artist/photographer?
3- Intimacy at an emotional distance.

Talk by: Rheba Adolph
Date: Friday, January 12
Time: 11 am (arrive at 10:30 to view works on display!)

Enjoy behind-the-scenes tours and see your favourite prints, drawings, watercolours and photographs. The second Friday of every month, one of P&D’s knowledgeable volunteers will give a talk that explores an area of the AGO’s Prints & Drawings Collection.