"I wanted to explore the lives of the people who stay, who are casualties of the growing economic divide that separates America's rural and metropolitan classes. Having lived in Iowa all my life, these forgotten communities are part of my own history."--Danny Wilcox Frazier
"I wanted to explore the lives of the people who stay, who are casualties of the growing economic divide that separates America's rural and metropolitan classes. Having lived in Iowa all my life, these forgotten communities are part of my own history."--Danny Wilcox Frazier
Danny Wilcox Frazier is a freelance photographer. Raised in Le Claire, a small Iowa town that sits along the Mississippi River, he now lives in Iowa City. Frazier has a master’s degree from the University of Iowa, and he has received awards from the University of Missouri’s Pictures of the Year International, including its 2004 Community Awareness Award for selections of his work from Iowa. He has also received a Stanley Fellowship, as well as awards from the National Press Photographers Association and the Society of Professional Journalists. His images have appeared in such publications as the New York Times, Time, Newsweek, Mother Jones, U.S. News & World Report, Life, and Forbes. Robert Frank is one of America’s preeminent photographers. His complex and visionary photographs of postwar America, as well as his later films and videos, have greatly influenced the work of generations of artists. Frank’s book The Americans (1958) brought him international attention and marked a turning point in photography. The National Gallery of Art in Washington founded the Robert Frank Collection in 1990. He has received numerous awards, including an International Photography Award from the Hasselblad Foundation in Sweden and a Cornell Capa Award from the International Center of Photography in New York.
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In Iowa / Seamus Heaney v Foreword / Robert Frank x Photographs 1 Acknowledgments 118
