Danny Wilcox Frazier photographs, 2003-2006

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Summary

Creator:
Frazier, Danny, 1970- and Archive of Documentary Arts (Duke University)
Abstract:
Collection comprises twenty-five black and white gelatin silver 16x20 inch exhibit prints, representing a larger body of work on contemporary Iowa rural culture. The images portray a changing Midwest of vanishing towns and transformed landscapes. Scenes include cemeteries, slaughterhouses, farms, abandoned grain elevators, and fields. Individuals inhabiting the scenes include young people at leisure, fishermen on the Mississippi, hunters in fields, veterans on Memorial Day, Amish families, as well as more recent arrivals to Iowa, Lubavitcher Hasidic Jews at prayer and migrant workers in the fields and at home. The prints are housed in exhibit mats. Acquired as part of the Archive of Documentary Arts at Duke University.
Extent:
3 Linear Feet (2 boxes; 25 items)
Language:
Materials are in English.
Collection ID:
RL.11129

Background

Scope and content:

Collection comprises twenty-five black-and-white gelatin silver 16x20 inch exhibit prints, representing a larger body of work by Danny Wilcox Frazier on contemporary Iowa rural culture. The images portray a changing Midwest of vanishing towns and transformed landscapes. Scenes include cemeteries, slaughterhouses, farms, abandoned grain elevators, and fields. Individuals inhapbiting the scenes include young people at leisure, fishermen on the Mississippi, hunters in fields, veterans on Memorial Day, Amish families, as well as more recent arrivals to Iowa, Lubavitcher Hasidic Jews at prayer and migrant workers in the fields and at home. The prints are arranged in exhibit number order, and are housed in hinged window mats.

The prints were featured in an exhibit entitled "Driftless: Photographs from Iowa" at Duke University in 2007. The term "Driftless" refers to a geological area of the Midwest untouched by glaciers. A recording of the artist's talk is available through the online exhibit.

Acquired as part of the Archive of Documentary Arts at Duke University.

Biographical / historical:

Danny Wilcox Frazier (b. 1971) is a documentary photographer based in the Midwest. His book, DRIFTLESS: PHOTOGRAPHS FROM IOWA, was published by Duke University Press in 2007, and won the Duke University Center for Documentary Studies/Honickman Book Prize in Photography.

Acquisition information:
The Danny Wilcox Frazier photographs were received by the David M. Rubenstein Rare Book Manuscript Library as a purchase in 2007.
Processing information:

Processed and encoded by Paula Jeannet, February 2016. Accession(s) described in this collection guide: 2007-0161.

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[Identification of item], Danny Wilcox Frazier photographs, David M. Rubenstein Rare Book & Manuscript Library, Duke University.