[Inscribed] Mike Disfarmer: Original Disfarmer Photographs

First edition book of photographs by Mike Disfarmer, published by Steidl and the Steven Kasher Gallery in 2005, on the occasion of an exhibition of Disfarmer photographs at the Steven Kasher Gallery in September and October of that year. Farmer was an American photographer known for stark, realistic portraits of everyday people in rural Arkansas, taken from the 1920’s to the 1950’s. His body of work was rediscovered in the 1970’s. With an essay by historian Alan Trachtenberg and a forward by Steven Kasher. Large 8vo, hardcover with dust jacket, 240 pages with black-and-white photographs. Inscribed by Steven Kasher on the title page in the year of publication. Gentle bumping to extremities. Light rubbing and chipping to dj, with moderate creasing to top and corner.