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Ken Schmierer
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Statement: In Schmierer’s Main Street series, the buildings and the linear geometry of the town are captured in perspectives that draw the eye into the photograph to search out more. Details give evidence to the people of the place and what is important to them. Other scenes from around town reflect the influences and burdens of living in a town whose living depends on agriculture and transportation. Scenes are void of people, yet are all about the works and lives of the people who build and maintain and even restore them. Rural scenes often show the effects of time on abandoned farmsteads, where only hints of the former residents remain. Rural nature is a nature confined by the pressure of agriculture and restrained by the hardness of climate. The absolute flatness of this region is portrayed where the straight horizon is revealed in the photograph.
Schmierer, after living in Texas and Kansas, now lives in the town where he spent his childhood, Ellendale, North Dakota, just a few miles west of Prairie Oak Artisans gallery owner’s first home.
Media: Digital photographs are computer manipulated then printed on photographic paper using standard photographic printing, giving their unique contemporary style a traditional finish. The 11x14 images are matted and framed to 16x20.
Customization available: Click to see more images at Ken's Photo Gallery. Images available matted or matted and framed. Frames are black, walnut, or dark walnut.
Pricing and Ordering information: Call (630) 393-4598.
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Ken
Schmierer photographs the often stark beauty of his North Dakota
small town and its rural surroundings with a sensitivity that
captures both the power and the frailties of the place. These street
and farm scenes are then computer manipulated to add or shift colors
or adjust content, adding another layer of creativity and meaning to
already artistic photographs, a layer that asks us to look deeper. 
