When I come across something like this, it often feels as if everyone else already knows about such things and I'm just behind the times. I just found out about Mike Disfarmer from a recent issue of The New Yorker.
In case you missed that issue, the guy was kind of a flake. Raised in the rural southern town of Heber Springs, Arkansas, he claimed to have been desposited by a tornado and raised by an adoptive family. To distance himself from his rural origins, he changed his last name from Meier ("dairy farmer" in German) to Disfarmer ("dis-farmer").
Flake or no, he was an amazing portraitist. Some of his images can be seen (or copies bought) at www.disfarmer.com. Many more are available for viewing on flickr.com, like this one:
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