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Features several photographs, these cards showcase Midwestern barns - from square to round, wood to brick, Dutch to Swedish, occupied or abandoned, all symbolizing a way of life that was once the lifeblood of Iowa and the Midwest.
Michael Harker is a documentary photographer who started photographing barns in 1993. A commercial photographer for more than twenty-five years and an ophthalmic photographer for the University of Iowa Hospitals and Clinics, Harker is author of Harker's Barns: Visions of an American Icon (IOWA 2003, text by Jim Heynen). He is currently taking photos for books on one-room schoolhouses and courthouses of Iowa.