Minnesota Photography

Barns of Minnesota Minnesota's barns are remarkable testaments to a Midwestern way of life, one centred on the land, work, family, ingenuity and perseverance. This book showcases the vast array of these exceptional landmarks, built by hand in wood and stone, brick and metal. Where Ohman's photographs capture the beauty of the barn from the outside in, Will Waver's evocative story illuminates the life of the barn from inside out. Readers witness the making and breaking of one barn as it plays into the life and sustenance of several generations of one family who settles the land in 1922 and who farmed into the age of agribusiness. Eighty-five stunning colour photographs accompanied by Weaver's moving story uplift these beautiful buildings and a way of life on the land that is as strong and proud, as fragile and humble, as the barns among us. Minnesota Photography.

Jerome Liebling: The Minnesota Photographs, 1949-1969 Here in more than a hundred photographs is portrayed Liebling's Minnesota. During two decades marked by social, political and cultural change, Liebling travelled the state and found his largest subject, the depiction and interpretation of commonplace human experience. The images range from the grain elevators and skid row of Minneapolis to the slaughterhouses in South St. Paul and the poor, working class streets of St. Paul's West Side; from the Iron Range and the Red Lake Indian reservation in the north to the farming towns in the south. The vision of Minnesota that emerges from the extraordinary photographs is uniquely that of the artist, yet it leads viewers effortlessly to an enhanced understanding of the places, the times, and, always, the people.

Minnesota in Our Time: A Photographic Portrait In 120 exquisitely reproduced black and white images, this book showcases the work of twelve commissioned photographers who sought to capture the essence of the state and its people at the threshold of the new millennium. Like the Farm Security Administration photographers of the Great Depression era, these men and women document the details of life in out time and the transformations now taking place in our state. This work is a product of the Minnesota 2000 Photo Documentation Project, a three-year effort that also produced an archival collection of 360 images and a museum exhibition at the Minnesota Historical Society.

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