Australia’s pre-eminent rural photographer, Andrew Chapman returns with a new book of photographs featuring the farm in all its glory the people, the sheds, the dogs, and tractors.Australian farmers value their acreage, their homes and their sheds with a passion. For it is on most farms that they have the space to collect, to store and to renovate all those bits that may one day come in handy. Quite a few farmers that when faced with a full shed of ‘stuff’ have the perfect solution build another shed! It’s on many of these farms that Chapman has recorded the rustic, the unusual, the curious and the comic. Chapman has travelled widely around the country to bring you this magnificent book of images that are not only fascinating, but a valuable document of a style a farming that is fast disappearing as the larger corporate properties start to dominate the landscape.
Australias countryside, deeply and richly scarred by the human presence, shows the marks of sweat and toil, of lives and generations, of triumphs and failures and of enterprise often slowly decaying with time. These beautiful images captured by Andrew Chapman in The Farm are glimpses of the past amidst the reality of the present. They are an evocative record by one of Australias most acclaimed photographers of an ever-changing landscape.
223 pages : colour illustrations ; 22 x 29 cm. #170322