Photos: A rich stream of color and faces at State Fair
As a personal project, David Bowman began creating large format images of the Midway rides at the State Fair in 2008. Using a 4x5 film camera that he adapted to work with a digital back, he said that he is drawn to the celebration of the last week of summer in a state where it is cold much of the year.
Bowman, a photographer, journalist and educator based in Minneapolis, also started wandering the Midway with a digital SLR and taking photos of the people at the fair. "I've returned to the fair to make clandestine portraits at night," he said, "my subjects unaware as I float through the crowd, capturing unposed moments as fleeting as the summer itself."
The first image in the gallery was published as the opening spread in the January 2013, 125th Anniversary edition of National Geographic magazine. It is on display as a 30" x 40" print this year at the Fine Arts Building at the fair.
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