Dormant Season — Erinn Springer. Published by Charcoal Press.
Dormant Season is an intimate look at the lives of Wisconsin farm families (including photographer Erinn Springer’s relatives). While there have been a number of good books about rural life these past several years, Springer rises above many of them through her photographic talent. Dormant Season is full of remarkable photographs that stand on their own, gaining even more strength when seen in book form, to richly portray a fading lifestyle that is the foundation of Midwestern culture.
Rixon Reed is the founder and director of photo-eye. He was seduced by the power of photobooks upon first seeing Larry Clark's Tulsa in 1973 while visiting a tiny Cooper Union bookstore in New York City. He later managed the Witkin Gallery book department before founding photo-eye in 1979 in Austin, Texas, as a mail order photography book business. He moved photo-eye to Santa Fe in 1991 where it remains today as a bricks and mortar bookstore, gallery and internet business.