![]() ![]() Failing in that enterprise, his family moved to other work as he studied math and physics in college with a beginning interest in photography. ![]() Printed in a first edition of 1,000 casebound copies, Grasslands opens with an introductory essay by Richard Manning, and concludes with Jay Dusard's insightful and feisty afterword.ĭon Kirby literally grew up turning the surface of the earth upside down-on his parent’s sharecropper farms in Northwestern Missouri. The resulting monograph comprises 47 duotone plates, sequenced geographically from America's heartland of Nebraska, the Dakotas, Kansas and Oklahoma through Texas, New Mexico, Colorado, Wyoming, and Idaho, to the Oregon and California coastlines. In 2005, Kirby began a major study of the National Grasslands in the United States. Grasslands is Kirby's second monograph and serves as a companion to his first book Wheatcountry as well as a stand-alone monograph of this important and timely series of photographs. Dust jacket now in a removable protective sleeve. ![]() Slight bump to bottom of spine the has affected both book and dust jacket. Large format hardback in near fine condition. ![]()
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