{"id":8397,"date":"2012-01-06T01:50:51","date_gmt":"2012-01-06T09:50:51","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.godammit.com\/?p=8397"},"modified":"2012-01-06T01:50:51","modified_gmt":"2012-01-06T09:50:51","slug":"michael-disfarmer","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/godammit.com\/michael-disfarmer\/","title":{"rendered":"Michael Disfarmer"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.godammit.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/01\/Michael-Disfarmer-small.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-8402\" title=\"Michael Disfarmer - small\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.godammit.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/01\/Michael-Disfarmer-small.jpg?resize=360%2C612\" alt=\"\" width=\"360\" height=\"612\" srcset=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/godammit.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/01\/Michael-Disfarmer-small.jpg?w=360&amp;ssl=1 360w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/godammit.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/01\/Michael-Disfarmer-small.jpg?resize=176%2C300&amp;ssl=1 176w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 360px) 100vw, 360px\" data-recalc-dims=\"1\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>The eccentric photographer known as Disfarmer (1884-1959) seemed to be a man determined to shroud himself in mystery. Born Mike Meyers, the sixth of seven children in a German immigrant family, Disfarmer rejected the Arkansas farming world and the family in which he was raised. He even claimed at one point in his life that a tornado had lifted him up from places unknown and deposited him into the Meyers family.<\/p>\n<p>In time Mike expressed his discontent with his family and farming by changing his name to Disfarmer. In modern German &#8220;meier&#8221; means dairy farmer, and since he thought of himself as neither a &#8220;Meyer&#8221; nor a &#8220;farmer,&#8221; Mike Meyer became &#8220;dis&#8221;- farmer. <a href=\"http:\/\/www.disfarmer.com\/\" target=\"_blank\">*<\/a><\/p>\n<p>I fucking love him. Even before I knew about his made-up name, I fell in love with him. The photo above just stopped me in my tracks. Unlike Diane Arbus, he doesn&#8217;t seem to be unduly drawn to the grotesque. But he does manage to create an almost alarming sense of intimacy.<\/p>\n<p>Explore his work <a href=\"https:\/\/www.google.com\/search?q=Michael+disfarmer&amp;hl=en&amp;prmd=imvns&amp;source=lnms&amp;tbm=isch&amp;ei=iL8GT7m5N6qPigKKoKyuCQ&amp;sa=X&amp;oi=mode_link&amp;ct=mode&amp;cd=2&amp;ved=0CAwQ_AUoAQ&amp;biw=1280&amp;bih=859\" target=\"_blank\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The eccentric photographer known as Disfarmer (1884-1959) seemed to be a man determined to shroud himself in mystery. Born Mike Meyers, the sixth of seven children in a German immigrant family, Disfarmer rejected the Arkansas farming world and the family &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/godammit.com\/michael-disfarmer\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","enabled":false}}},"categories":[12],"tags":[67,1015],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p7t44M-2br","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/godammit.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8397"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/godammit.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/godammit.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/godammit.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/godammit.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=8397"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/godammit.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8397\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/godammit.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8397"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/godammit.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8397"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/godammit.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8397"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}