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"IOWA is so fresh. Rexroth ... uses graphic forms with the intelligence of a fine poet. This is a feminine eye and a brave one." -- Anne Wilkes Tucker, from "Nancy Rexroth" "'Talking about dreams is like talking about movies,' Federico Fellini once said, 'years can pass in a second and you can hop from one place to another.' The place where Rexroth's images take us isn't really Iowa; it is, to borrow from the title of [another] film, her own private Iowa." -- Alec Soth, from "Rexroth's Strawberries" "IOWA is unique in all of photographic history." -- John Rohrbach, senior curator of photographs, Amon Carter Museum of American Art, and author of Color: American Photography Transformed

Table of Contents

• “Rexroth’s Strawberries” by Alec Soth
• “Nancy Rexroth” by Anne Wilkes Tucker
• “Iowa in Ohio” by Mark L. Power
• Introduction by Nancy L. Rexroth
• Photos
• “IOWA since 1975” by Mark L. Power
• “Remembering IOWA: On the Fortieth Anniversary of Its Publication” by Nancy L. Rexroth
• Acknowledgments

About the Author

Nancy Rexroth’s work is held by major collections, including the Museum of Modern Art, the Center for Creative Photography, the Smithsonian Institution, the Corcoran Gallery of Art, the Baltimore Museum of Art, the Bibliothéque Nationale de France, the Library of Congress, and the Museum of Fine Arts, Houston.

A member of Magnum Photos and the publisher of Little Brown Mushroom Press, Alec Soth is a photographer who has published over twenty-five books, including Sleeping by the Mississippi, NIAGARA, Broken Manual, and Songbook.

Hailed as “America’s Best Curator” by Time magazine, Anne Wilkes Tucker served as the Gus and Lyndall Wortham Curator at the Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, where she built the photography collection and organized more than forty exhibitions.

Mark L. Power is a photographer and photography educator whose works are in the Library of Congress, the Smithsonian Institution, the Corcoran Gallery of Art, the Bibliothéque Nationale de France, and other collections.

Reviews

Summer heatwaves bring me back to my childhood in the Midwest. Humid afternoons spent indoors after a morning of swimming in the lake—I can hold the feeling of a day’s temperature on my skin for a moment before it’s gone again. Nancy Rexroth’s IOWA...inspires the same flashes of memory...The black-and-white photographs are soft, often blurred, and vignetted, lending them a dreamy quality: fragments of doorways, light streaming in through a curtain, a crisp white bed, a sweater drooping on a hanger. Children at play, a cow’s face, her mother’s knees. Ohio, Iowa, Minnesota, Wisconsin matters not.
*Vanity Fair*