ISBN: 9781576873045Copublished by Edwynn Houk GalleryPhotographs by Mike DisfarmerTexts by Edwynn Houk, Gerd Sander, Richard B. Woodward, and Michael P. MattisVintage Photography / American HistoryClothbound7.5 x 9.75 inches240 pages157 duotone photographsISBN: 978-1-57687-304-5Best Photography Book of 2005, The New York Times Book ReviewMike Disfarmer is a true American eccentric. Born Mike Meyer, he changed his name to distance himself from both the surrounding farming community of his native Arkansas and from his own kinfolk—claiming that a tornado had accidentally blown him onto the Meyer family farm as a baby. The son of a German-born Union soldier in the heart of the South, Disfarmer was an agnostic from Lutheran stock among the church-going Baptists and Methodists, and remained a confirmed bachelor in a community of large families.