Uncle John: Portraits of a True Yankee Farmer

By Georgia Sheron

Over the course of a dozen years, photographer Georgia Sheron took numerous photographs of her next-door neighbor, Uncle John Ludorf, a farmer who plowed with horses and milked cows by hand into his late nineties. Her striking prints, accompanied by John's observations as garnered in a number of interviews, offer an artful, nuanced, and unsentimental look at a bygone way of life. I love the way certain photographs overwhelm with the sheer immediacy and vastness of the terrain, so that it takes a few moments to realize there's a tiny person there. In other photographs, we're persuaded to perceive the way the photographer does: John's spread fingers are not so very different from the splayed branches of the towering tree; his veins are only the living version of the shape he holds." From the introduction by Ann Beattie

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0872331601
• ISBN13: 9780872331600
• Release Date: May 2013
• Publisher: Bauhan Pub
• Length: 156 Pages
• Weight: 2.25 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.7" x 11.3" x 8.7"