Born: 1936, 4 September - US, MO, Eagleville Died: Gender: Male Active: US
Don Kirby has photographed throughout the western United States for thirty years, initially concentrating on the Colorado Plateau, the "Canyon Country" of Utah and Arizona. His continuing photography, hiking and river running have made him a true expert on the region. His extensive portfolio from this area includes a major study of the Ancestral Pueblo ruins and rock art. These photographs carry a variety of emotions, sometimes mysterious, sometimes quiet and subtle, sometimes bold and electrifying. Don grew up turning the surface of the earth upside down, the son of a sharecropper in northwestern Missouri. A half century later, he has emerged as the preeminent photographer of wheat country, a master of both his medium and chosen subject matter. His sweeping, geometric photographs of wheat fields in the American Northwest manage to convey both a sense of wonder and deep understanding of the land--our dependence on it for our survival, and its own survival of the uses and abuses we impose upon it.
[Courtesy of Verve Fine Arts Gallery - 2006]
Don Kirby
Portraits
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