Warner, Nancy. This Place, These People: Life and Shadow on the Great Plains. Photographs by Nancy Warner. Text by David Stark. Untitled (Friends of Photography) and the more control the

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Warner, Nancy. This Place, These People: Life and Shadow on the Great Plains. Photographs by Nancy Warner. Text by David Stark. Untitled (Friends of Photography) and the more control theColumbia University Press, 2014. First edition, 1st printing. Bound in black cloth, fine with near fine protected dust jacket. 118 pages. As small farms disappeared on the prairie, Nancy Warner photographed abandoned homes and agricultural buildings in Cuming County, Nebraska, in a way reminiscent of Wright Morris in The Inhabitants (1946). According to photographer Martha Casanave, "Warner's exquisite and haunting images are like memory itself: