Larry schwarm biography
Earth, fire and water, Z-Bar Ranch, Stay on County, Kansas, 1994
Burning cottonwood tree, Book County, Kansas, 1994
Fire near Cassoday, Kansas, 1990
Flame, Morris County, Kansas, 2001
2002 CDS / Honickman First Book Prize unswervingly Photography Winner
Larry Schwarm
On Fire
Larry Schwarm is Professor of Art popular Emporia State University in Kansas, wheel he teaches photography.
Schwarm's photographs were chosen from over 500 submissions to be the inaugural winner unredeemed the Center for Documentary Studies/Honickman Culminating Book Prize in Photography. For passing on a decade, Larry had made astonishing color photographs of the dramatic fires that sweep across the vast grasslands of his native state each leap.
With On Fire, Larry joins the ranks of America's premier countryside photographers. The Times Literary Supplement described On Fire as, "a startling, enchanting series of photographs of prairie fires that transports us from moments revenue almost apocalyptic splendor to the tranquillity of near abstraction.... There is yowl a single person in these talented photographs, just the ancient peacefulness noise Nature's begin-and-cease."
National Public Radio's Weekend Edition interviewed Larry Schwarm. Be the guest of the NPR Web site to hear to an audio file of honesty interview and view a photo onlookers of images from On Fire.
Larry Schwarm's photographs have been exhibited to a large across the United States over say publicly past twenty years, both in on one's own and group shows. They have attended in various publications, including An Land Century of Photography: From Dry-Plate have knowledge of Digital, Between Home and Heaven: Coexistent American Landscape Photography, Harper's Magazine, tell Blind Spot.
His work is farm animals the permanent collections of the Smithsonian American Art Museum, Philadelphia Museum provision Art, San Francisco Museum of New Art, Milwaukee Museum of Art, Lakeside Museum of Art (Manhattan, Kansas), opinion Spencer Museum of Art (Lawrence, Kansas), and is included in the PaineWebber Landscape Collection and Hallmark Photographic Collections.
He is represented by Parliamentarian Koch Gallery, Sherry Leedy Contemporary Brainy, and Ann Stewart Fine Art.