KAREN BUCHER PHOTOGRAPHY

Sunnydell Farm: Book

_{Sunnydell Farm is the name my mother gave to the Pennsylvania dairy farm that our family started in 1947. This book about growing up on that farm is also a mother/daughter dialogue about the past and shared memory. It explores these themes through a series of photographs that I took from 1992 through 1999, and a layering of images drawn from family snapshots and ephemera found in the house and farm buildings.}

_{58 pages, 8"x10.5", laminated covers, spiral bound, digitally printed, edition of 300, ISBN: 89822-090-4, Visual Studies Workshop Press, Rochester, 2004}

_{. . . . There was a time when these objects had stories strongly attached . . .}

_{. . . and they were critical when they saw that my father didn't expect my mother to do farmwork . . .}

_{. . . "It's better not to tell children too much." . . .}

_{. . . How could we children not have felt the discipline of animals and control of nature in our own bodies . . . . .}