Tom Arndt’s Black And White Photographs Of “Home”
Minnesota State Fair, St. Paul, 1976
Home: Tom Arndt’s Minnesota is a book forty years in the making. These thirteen black and white images by the native Minnesotan are selected from among the 100 plates in his new book, what he calls “a poem to my home state.”
Minnesota is a beautiful place if you can appreciate flatness and don’t require intense conversation or jaw-dropping glamour. We don’t do so much of that here. We spend a good deal of time waiting for something to come along and usually it doesn’t.
—Garrison Keillor, from his Foreword to Tom Arndt’s Home
Bicentennial fete, Browerville, 1976
Out the bus window, Hennepin Avenue, Minneapolis, 1974
Portrait of a young woman, Minneapolis, 1977
Mother and Child, Kenosha apartments, Minneapolis, 1973
Waitress, lunch counter, Minneapolis, 1974
Como Park, St. Paul, 1975
Aunt Fud and Candy’s doghouse, Fergus Falls, 1973
Kids, Duluth, 1978
Linda, Minneapolis, 1967
Cheerleader, Patrick Henry High School, Minneapolis, 2006
Kids at the Minnesota State Fair, St. Paul, 1979
Precious, Minnesota State Fair, St. Paul, 1984
All photographs © Tom Arndt, from Home: Tom Arndt’s Minnesota. Foreword by Garrison Keillor, Introduction by George Slade. University of Minnesota Press, 2009.
Tags: Minnesota, Tom Arndt, University of Minnesota Press
April 2nd, 2009 at 10:14 pm EEDT
COOOOOOLLLLLL!!!!
April 4th, 2009 at 11:51 pm EEDT
Nice work. Good seeing.
March 10th, 2010 at 11:23 pm EEST
Dear Tom,
I was lucky to have taken a couple excellent classes from you at Film in the Cities in the early eighties. You did inspire me!!! Still shooting stills and producing, directing, and editing video. I finally got around to looking you up and glad I did. Nice work Tom.
Jeff Lyman
April 14th, 2010 at 11:41 pm EEDT
There are so many subtle elements, storied details, and emotional treasures in each one of these photos it would take at lest a 300 word essay to describe. Stay tuned.
Thanks for the memories Tom,
Jeff
April 18th, 2010 at 5:39 pm EEDT
Tom,
It was great to see some of the stuff from the good old days. Nice images as usual. Times like this when I wish some of the clock could be turn back if only for a little while. Great inspiration as usual!
Keep it up….
Dave
May 26th, 2010 at 10:46 am EEDT
I like this video production. What camera did you use?
November 9th, 2010 at 9:28 am EEST
Thank you for the great blog post. I found u from Bing and will definitely come back for further updates on the subject