Portraits: Faces and Profiles of Utility
Self-published book “Portraits: Faces and Profiles of Utility”. A body of ongoing work (54 photographs) depicting icons of rural utility; the subjects are surrogate symbols, whose form suggests its meaning.
434 / 434.5 East Locust [Established before you were born]
Certain alterations, though not always necessarily pretty or planned, leave a mark, a story behind. Some marks, like scars, may become beautiful against the rest of the body. Whether it looks good or bad doesn't matter so much as that it looks real.
Photographs by Matt Niebuhr of an old building in the East Village neighborhood on the East Side of Des Moines, Iowa - 2006
Natural Form
DATE: 20 JAN 2010
SIZE: 8.25" × 10.75"
24 pages - Saddle-stitched
$10 - available in Print and/or Digital (iPad)
Photographs by Matt Niebuhr