Erinn Springer’s photographs of rural Wisconsin pay tribute to a patch of prairie that her family has called home for seven generations. See more:
did in similar places more than a century before. Like those writers, Springer is attentive to the architecture of rural life, and her pictures are dotted with its silos, fenceposts, rafter beams, lofts, clotheslines, and livestock barns. She is also attuned to textures: to corrugated tin, tombstone marble, vinyl siding, weathered clapboard, coverall camouflage, wooden-plank floors, exposed two-by-fours, earthen mounds, gnarled bark, stubble wheat, straw and hay, and wrinkled flesh.
The picture Springer eventually took of that farm school features a passel of children gathered like a choir of angels, sitting on hay bales between their school lessons, bathed in afternoon light as if in a Renaissance painting. The photographs in “Dormant Season” are black and white, but that hint of nostalgia feels representative of rural life, not feigned.
Springer has the answers but keeps them to herself. “Dormant Season” is about a part of the world she knows well, and wants us to know, too, even while wanting to protect this place from outsiders. There are no titles or captions in these pages, just the photographs—which, like all good art, both demand and reward our curiosity.
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