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At
the close of the nineteenth century, approximately 42 percent of the
workforce in the United States was involved in agriculture. One
hundred years later, at the close of the twentieth century, that number
dropped to less than two percent. A cultural revolution has occurred
in rural America that may be going unnoticed by many. Gregory Spaid
has made it a point to notice and to record in these eloquent photographs
the visible signs of that change in the last decade of the twentieth
century. But these plain and poetic photographs show us more than
abandonment and loss; they also show the abiding elemental beauty of rural
places that continues to exert its spiritual force on those who live on
the land. This is a quality Spaid calls grace.
about the photographer
Gregory Spaid is a photographer and teacher of photography at Kenyon
College in Ohio. His work has been exhibited throughout the United
States and is in the collections of many public and private institutions
including the Museum of Modern Art, the J. Paul Getty Museum, the
Smithsonian Institution and the Chase Manhattan Bank. He has been
the recipient of numerous grants for his work, including six from the Ohio
Arts Council and Fulbright Research Fellowship in Italy. |
