On Firm Ground

by Kanfer, Larry

• ISBN13: 9780252075872
• ISBN10: 0252075870
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2008-09-24
• Publisher: Univ of Illinois Pr

Summary

To openOn Firm Groundis to enter a deeply loved and meticulously observed country, a land generous with its gifts and unforgiving in its climate, a land that yields its beauty only to the patient observer. In the deep grain of plowed fields, the hypnotic grace of tall grasses, the texture of weathered barn wood, Larry Kanfer harvests all the subtlety of color and season and amplifies the quiet elegance of the region. In this exhilarating celebration of the prairie, Kanfer brings the understated and unexpected beauty of the Midwest to the fore. In the clean lines of field and horizon, in the vast expanse of a threatening or brilliantly clear sky, in the pinpoint of light from a farmhouse window that fends off the darkness pressing in on all sides, Kanfer's images capture the living, breathing exchange of human and natural energies that animates the heartland.

Author Biography

Larry Kanfer is an award-winning photographic artist who operates galleries in Champaign, Illinois, and online at www.kanfer.com. His previous books include Prairiescapes, On Second Glance: Midwest Photographs, On This Island: Photographs of Long Island, and Postcards from the Prairie: Photographic Memories from the University of Illinois.