KAREN BUCHER PHOTOGRAPHY

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 . . . . .
Copyright © 1992-2005. Karen Bucher. All rights reserved.