These portraits were made in a portable studio that was hauled from fair to fair between 1976 and 1980. The studio was complete with darkroom and a shooting stage and it took a crew of three to run it: a shooter (me), a front person to handle customers and a darkroom person to develop and print the 4x5 inch negative. The entire process, when going smoothly, took about fifteen minutes.

The late novelist James D. Houston wrote about the portraits:

"The result is one of those collections that somehow illuminates a chapter in our cultural history-a certain slice of living, at a certain time, in a certain locale. It brings to mind Edward Curtis's Portraits of North American Indian Life, and the Dustbowl photos by Walker Evans in Let Us Now Praise Famous Men, and the series by Ansel Adams called Born Free And Equal, recording the lives of Japanese Americans at Manzanar Relocation Center, east of the Sierras, in 1942, and Our Kind of People, Bill Owens' study of hometown groups and rituals. County Fair has that same kind of narrative appeal. These eyes and outfits, the body talk, the tattoos and the jewelry-they tell us, with haunting precision, one of the true American stories."

"County Fair Portraits: Special Portfolio Edition" is a catalogue of a limited edition set of 25 portraits printed on finely crafted archival ink-jet paper and encased in a custom made Dreaming Mind archival box. --Mikkel Aaland, photographer

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