The result of a seven-and-a-half-year undertaking to document Iowa's barns and all they represent, Harker's Barns: Visions of an American Icon featured seventy-five stunning black-and-white photograp
Michael Harker drove past old barns on gravel roads and blacktop highways for years. He generally dismissed them as obsolete outbuildings until November 1993, when he felt compelled to photograph
These stark and stunning photographs of these small, neat one-room buildings - once the social and educational center of rural life, now either abandoned or restored to an artificial quaintness - enc
