Publisher/University of Texas Press

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IOWA is a collection of works by American photographer Nancy Rexroth (1946-). Since the early 1970s, she has garnered attention for her soft focus and vignetting, captured with her Diana toy camera. She has cultivated a unique style that weaves together fragments of everyday life into personal memories. In a period of photography that emphasized precise detail, this work, showcasing the ambiguous, dreamlike images captured with an inexpensive camera, occupies an important place in the reevaluation of snapshot sensibilities and personal narratives. Self-published in 1977, IOWA features scenes primarily set in rural Ohio, featuring familiar motifs such as children, interiors, white houses, and animals, layered with blurred and multiple exposures. In his foreword, Magnum photographer Alec Soth positions IOWA as a key work in the history of photobooks, reaffirming the impact of Rexroth's pioneering visual language. Titled "Landscapes of the Mind," IOWA functions more as a device for evoking childhood memories and feelings of nostalgia than as a record of a specific place, quietly questioning the relationship between our memories and images. This book is a reprint published 40 years after the first edition, which had long been difficult to obtain, and includes previously unpublished illustrations and new text, reintroducing important works.