<p>Don Kirby grew up turning the surface of the earth upside down, the son of a sharecropper in northwestern Missouri. A half century later, he has emerged as the preeminent photographer of wheat country, a master of both his medium and chosen subject matter. Kirby's sweeping, geometric photographs of wheatfields in the American Northwest manage to convey both a sense of wonder and a deep understanding of the land - our dependence on it for our survival, and its own survival of the uses and abuses we impose upon it. The artist's first monograph, Wheatcountry is printed in a first edition of 2,000 casebound copies. The forty plates are beautifully printed in duotone on matt art paper..."-the publisher.</p>

Wheatcountry

Arts & Photography

Kirby, Don

Photography & Video

Nazraeli Pr

<p>From the publisher: "While Don Kirby was working on his Wheatcountry images he photographed a now-deserted schoolhouse and became fascinated by the generations of graffiti scrawled upon its walls. As is so often the case, some of the most meaningful comments in -- and on --life are to found in places where they are not expected. Kirby's black and white photographs immortalize pearls of profundity that would more usually inspire removal than recording: the book's title, for example, or the equally delicious "There have been no dragons in my life, only spiders and girls. . . I could have coped with dragons." Wheatcountry, Don Kirby's first monograph, was published to wide international acclaim, and documented a subject close to the artist's heart since childhood. Of his follow-up One Picture Book, the artist writes: "Printing the graffiti, I became much more aware of the significance this place has for me and the importance I attach to saying something about it. The Wheatcountry book was completed by the essays, which were needed to convey aspects the photographs miss. This statement is complete in the photographs."</p>

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Wheatcountry

You're not really initiated until your eyes are redder than your lips (Nazraeli Press one picture book)