Logan, Ohio
1969
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View on museum website →Medium
gelatin silver print
Dimensions
image: 10.8 × 11.7 cm (4 1/4 × 4 5/8 in.) sheet: 20.32 × 25.4 cm (8 × 10 in.)
Classification
Photograph
Department
CPH
Museum
National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C.
Credit
Corcoran Collection (Anonymous gift)
Accession Number
2015.19.4337
Art Historical Context
Nancy Rexroth's *Logan, Ohio* (1969) invites visitors to glimpse the quiet rhythms of rural Midwestern life through the lens of a gelatin silver print, a classic black-and-white photographic process prized for its rich tonal gradations and sharp detail. Measuring a modest 10.8 × 11.7 cm, this intimate image captures a specific moment in small-town America during the late 1960s—a time when the nation grappled with social upheaval, civil rights struggles, and the Vietnam War, yet rural communities like Logan, Ohio, persisted in their unassuming routines. As an early work by Rexroth, a pioneerin...
About the Artist
Nancy Rexroth
Nancy Rexroth, born in 1946 in Washington, D.C., and raised in the suburbs of Arlington, Virginia, drew early inspiration from childhood summer visits to relatives in Iowa, which infused her work with a sense of exotic, dreamlike rural memory. She earned a BFA in English from American University, where she developed an interest in photojournalism influenced by masters like Emmet Gowin, Robert Fran...