tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4445844569294316288.post1389207471430243797..comments2024-01-28T03:56:39.351-08:00Comments on TOM CLARK: John Vachon: In the Heartland: Fruits of the PlainUnknownnoreply@blogger.comBlogger2125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4445844569294316288.post-25268507870365099412010-09-06T08:55:49.829-07:002010-09-06T08:55:49.829-07:00This "country" aspect of the struggling ...This "country" aspect of the struggling smalltown rural areas of the prairie, and the basic decency of the people concerned, was something Vachon evidently understood quite well from growing up in Minnesota. There is a fairytale quality to the images in this post for me, though of course there are no fairies in poverty, and that too is part of what the post is meant to be about.TChttps://www.blogger.com/profile/05915822857461178942noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4445844569294316288.post-29138581694584778142010-09-06T07:10:20.782-07:002010-09-06T07:10:20.782-07:00I’m from New York, from the suburbs and not the fa...I’m from New York, from the suburbs and not the farm, and until seeing these I had never given sorghum much thought, but I’ll never forget the sorghum teepees and piles or the photograph of the sorghum farmer with the child. The image of the children walking to school stirs up a kind of universal memory, I think. All of these photographs, apart from the artistry they display, seem to paint John Vachon as a very decent man.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.com