Month: February 2014

Photography SPOTTED. Mike Disfarmer | Portrait Photographer. A portrait photographer in Heber Springs, Arkansas, Michael Disfarmer’s invaluable contribution to photography and the documentation of rural America went unnoticed until 1973, fourteen years after his death. This eccentric man’s work, which later garnered national attention, captures with stark realism the people in and around Heber Springs in the early to mid-1900s. Disfarmer’s extensive body of work has inspired many others in photography, film, theatre and fashion. Solemn, stark and suprisingly intimate, Disfarmer’s photography puts him into the increasingly renowned group of America’s great outsider artists. Simply, amazing…