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High Plains Farm Photographs and Text by Paula Chamlee Foreword by George Thompson 81 reproductions, 176 pages 9 5/8 " x 11 1/2 " Limited to an edition of 2,750 regular hardbound copies and a signed, numbered, custom-bound and slipcased limited edition of 250. Published in cooperation with The Center for American Places: 1996 After thirty-three years, Paula Chamlee returned home to photograph and write about the farm where she grew up on the High Plains of the Texas Panhandle, a farm where her parents, now in their late eighties, still farm their 1,100 acres all by themselves. With intensity and insight, she has created a work of extraordinary depth and cultural significance. This emotionally charged and aesthetically powerful document provides an intimate look at her home place and reveals a way of life and value system that are quickly vanishing. Every detail in the production of this exquisite book was supervised by the photographer and produced to the exacting standards that are a hallmark of Lodima Press. The photographs, from 8x10-inch and 5x7-inch contact prints, are reproduced on heavy cover stock by Gardner Lithograph with exceptional fidelity to the tonal delicacy and luminosity of the original prints. A sturdy and elegant French-fold dust jacket protects and complements this fine book. Chamlee's writing in the introduction sets her photographs in the context of Texas history and her family heritage. In addition, her extensive "Notes on the Photographs" provides information and insights about the pictures and evokes the flavor of farm life in the twentieth century. In the Foreword, George F. Thompson meditates on the profound place that rural life, especially the family farm, still holds in the nation's collective imagination and memory. The combination of photographs and writing in High Plains Farm creates a book that will find a place of enduring value and significance not only in Texas art and history, but also in the archives of American art and cultural studies.   In Stock Quantity: