If you're a fan of Disfarmer's work or of portraits in particular, you will love this book; the Heber Spring portraits are a slice of rural American life and are historically and culturally interesting to me. But also, in response to the previous reviewer I thought it was important for readers to know that Mike Disfarmer did not grow up in the town where he took the photos that made him famous, nor did he ever, to my knowledge, wake up with amnesia! He did change his name from Meyer (farmer in German) to DisFarmer, to dissociate himself from his family. He was a reclusive, distant man that wasn't necessarily remembered fondly. He is famous for the photographs he took of the small town folk of Heber Springs, Arkansas, but he did not move there until he was around 30 years of age. Many of his years before moving to Heber Springs remain a mystery. You can learn more about him on [...]