David Ottenstein Photographs of Iowa.

2004-2010.

2.66 linear feet (32 boxes)

Title devised by cataloger.

Purchased from David Ottenstein Photography on the Frederick W. and Carrie S. Beinecke Fund for Western Americana and the Edwin J. Beinecke Book Fund, 2007-2010.

This material is open for research.

David Ottenstein (born 1960) graduated from Yale College in 1982 with a degree in American studies and a concentration in photography. Ottenstein works as a free-lance photographer based in New Haven, Connecticut.

Ink jet print photographs that document the transformation of the Iowa countryside from traditional family farms to industrial farmsteads, as well as the growth of agricultural industries in the American Midwest, 2004-2010. The images document traditional farmhouses, barns, silos, corn cribs, sheds and other farm buildings. They detail the physical changes of the natural and built landscape that accompany the social and economic trends at the turn of the of twenty-first century in the American Midwest. The collection includes some images of Illinois.

English

February 03, 2010

Finding aid available.

David Ottenstein Photographs of Iowa. Yale Collection of Western Americana, Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library.

David Ottenstein Photographs of Iowa. Yale Collection of Western Americana, Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library.