Mississippi Blue silas-finch yet they show his sitter's

yet they show his sitter's humble grace and small-town charm

“I was divorcing myself from all that

I study them as if they were surveillance photos from a satellite or a hidden camera

and eventually the photographer must close his eyes to see that truth

Sarfati did not overly choreograph her subjects

Mississippi Blue silas-finch yet they show his sitter'sThe cyanotypes reproduced in Mississippi Blue come from an album of photographs taken by Henry P. Bosse for the Army Corps of Engineers. They show the Mississippi River between Minneapolis and St. Louis, and were taken from 1882 to 1892 as part of the Corps' effort to document and understand the ever changing river. twin palms publishers march 2002 9 x 11 inches 65 four color plates 172 pages