Skip to main content

On Fire


October 1, 2003 – October 31, 2003
Location: Special Collections Hallway Gallery
Sponsor(s): Rare Book, Manuscript, and Special Collections Library
Artist(s): Schwarm, Larry

This exhibition presents work by Larry Schwarm, winner of the Center for Documentary Studies/Honickman First Book Prize in Photography for his series of color images capturing the dramatic prairie fires that sweep across the Flint Hills of Kansas each spring. A professor of art at Emporia State University, Schwarm has spent the past twelve years photographing the burning of the tallgrass prairie in his native state.


The online exhibit is no longer available, but an archived version can be viewed at the Internet Archive.

 


This exhibition was sponsored in part by the E. Rhodes and Leona B. Carpenter Foundation.