Harker's Barns: Visions of an American Icon

Seventy-five black and white photos pay tribute to one of America's most enduring rural icons-the barn.

About the author

A commercial photographer for over twenty-five years, Michael Harker works as an ophthalmic photographer at the University of Iowa Hospitals and Clinics. His barn photographs are featured in the traveling exhibit "Barns Again! Celebrating an American Icon," sponsored by Humanities Iowa and organized by the Smithsonian Institution's Traveling Exhibition Service and the National Building Museum. Born on a farm in northwest Iowa and educated in a one-room schoolhouse, Jim Heynen teaches writing at St. Olaf College in Northfield, Minnesota. He is the author of, most recently, The Boys' House: New and Selected Short Stories.

Summary

Each of the 75 black-and-white images featured in this book captures the glory and demise of one of rural America's most enduring icons. From square to round, wood to brick, Dutch to Swedish, the barns documented here are a testament to a passing way of life in Iowa and the Midwest.

Product details

• Authors: Michael Harker, Michael P. Harker, Jim Heynen, George Hull
• Assisted by: Michael P. Harker (Photographs)
• Publisher: University Of Iowa Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 01.02.2003
• EAN: 9780877458340
• ISBN: 978-0-87745-834-0
• No. of pages: 104
• Dimensions: 253 mm x 234 mm x 9 mm
• Weight: 490 g
• Series: A Bur Oak Book; Bur Oak Book; Bur Oak Books; Bur Oak Books; Bur Oak Book
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Art > Photography, film, video, TV; Non-fiction book > History > Miscellaneous