IOWA

The International Center for Photography, the Corcoran Gallery of Art, and the Smithsonian Institution included IOWA images in group exhibitions.Forty years after its original publication, IOWA has become a classic of fine art photography, a renowned demonstration of Rexroth's ability to fashion a world of surprising aesthetic possibilities using a simple, low-tech dollar camera. Aperture published a portfolio of IOWA images in a special issue, The Snapshot, alongside the work of Robert Frank, Garry Winogrand, Lee Friedlander, and Emmet Gowin. New postscripts by Nancy Rexroth and Mark L. In the early 1970s, Nancy Rexroth began photographing the rural landscapes, children, white frame houses, and domestic interiors of southeastern Ohio with a plastic toy camera called the Diana. Long out of print and highly prized by photographers and photobook collectors, IOWA is now available in a hardcover edition that includes twenty-two previously unpublished images. Working with the camera's properties of soft focus a

This is a feminine eye and a brave one." (Anne Wilkes Tucker, from “Nancy Rexroth”)"'Talking about dreams is like talking about movies,’ Federico Fellini once said, ‘years can pass in a second and you can hop from one place to another.’ The place where Rexroth’s images take us isn’t really Iowa; it is, to borrow from the title of another film, her own private Iowa." (Alec Soth, from “Rexroth’s Strawberries”)"IOWA is unique in all of photographic history." (John Rohrbach, senior curator of photographs, Amon Carter Museum of American Art, and author of Color: American Photography Transformed) . "IOWA is so fresh. Rexroth uses graphic forms with the intelligence of a fine poet

. Nancy Rexroth’s work is held by major collections, including the Museum of Modern Art, the Center for Creative Photography, the Smithsonian Institution, the Corcoran Gallery of Art, the Baltimore Museum of Art, the Bibliothéque Nationale de France, the Library of Congress, and the Museum of Fine Arts, Houston.A member of Magnum Photos and the publisher of Little Brown Mushroom Press, Alec Soth is a photographer who has published over twenty-five books, including Sleep