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Till the Cows Come Home: County Fair Portraits
By Dan Nelken
Kehrer Verlag, 119 pages, $50
“There is a complex lyricism at work in this most commonplace social and agricultural enterprise, as of music that is felt though unheard,” Roy Flukinger writes in his introduction. The photos collected here are warm, but not nostalgic. In these images we see a generation of young adults with their homegrown chickens, pigs, horses, cows and rabbits. Homemade pies look so delicious they seem to emit a scent off the page. Dan Nelken’s pictures not only reflect but also amplify the uniquely American experience of the county fair.
