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Reclusive portrait photographer Mike Disfarmer (1917-1956) believed he was a foundling dropped on his parents' property by a tornado, and as an adult he legally changed his name from Meyer to Disfarmer to disassociate himself from his small-town Arkansas milieu. ("Meier" is a German word for dairy farmer; adding the prefix "dis" was intended to establish what he was not.) Using glass plate photography long after it was obsolete, Disfarmer's work spans the Dust Bowl days to the post-War era. Unrecognized until years after his death, in the 1970s thousands of his negatives were purchased and publicized by an editor at The Arkansas Sun, and the portraits were eventually acclaimed for their arresting clarity and revealing simplicity.