Mike Disfarmer was a portraitist based in the Heber Springs, AK, during the tumultuous years of Great Depression through WW II. This legendary recluse and renowned curmudgeon legally changed his name from Mike Meyer to Disfarmer, in order to distance himself from his farming ties and the very community which surrounded him. Disfarmer’s photographs remain a compelling presentation of human life within this community, as Michael P. Matis states, “The camara’s unsentimental gaze suggests a photographer who was simultaneously an insider and an outsider in his own community.”