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Title: Sunday Afternoon on the Porch
Condition: New
Subtitle: Reflections of a Small Town in Iowa, 1939-1942
Contributor: Everett W. Kuntz (Photographs by), Jim Heynen (Text by)
Author: Everett W. Kuntz
Format: Hardback
EAN: 9781587296536
ISBN: 9781587296536
Publisher: University of Iowa Press
Release Date: 06/01/2007
Genre: Arts & Photography
ISBN-10: 1587296535
Topic: Home Garden & Pets
Description: In 1939, just before graduating from high school in the small town of Ridgeway in northeast Iowa, Everett Kuntz spent his entire savings of $12.50 on a 35mm Argus AF camera. He made a camera case from a worn-out boot, scraps from a tin can, and a clasp from his mother's purse. For the next several years, especially during the summers when he worked on his parents' dairy farm, he clicked the shutter of his trusty Argus all around the quiet town.Everett bought movie reel film in bulk from a mail-order house, rolled his own film, and developed it in a closet at home, but he never had the money to print his photographs. More than two thousand negatives stayed in a box while he married, raised a family, and worked as an electrical engineer in the Twin Cities. When he became ill with cancer in the fall of 2002 - sixty years after he had developed the last of his bulk film - Everett opened his time capsule and printed the images from his youth. He died in 2003, having brought his childhood town back to life just as he was leaving it.
Language: English
Country/Region of Manufacture: US
Item Weight: 458g
Series: Bur Oak Book
Type: Architectural
Item Length: 15mm
Item Height: 177mm
Release Year: 2007

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