The New Yorker
Posted on July 13, 2021
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Link to full article here: Who Owns Mike Disfarmer’s Photographs?
Ellen Stewart, one of Disfarmer’s great-nieces, holds a portrait that he took of her parents on their wedding day. Photograph by Rachel Boillot for The New Yorker
The group of relatives fighting for control of Disfarmer’s estate, including Ruth Kirkemier, one of Disfarmer’s great-nieces, is now about sixty strong.
Photograph by Rachel Boillot for The New Yorker