You know I am interested in looking at things. Especially ordinary things. I mean really looking. That's why I intrigued by Mark Cohen's 1970s street photographs of his hometown, Wilkes-Barre, PA. His Frame A Retrospective just out from University of Texas Press.
It is a little shocking how skinny kids and adults were in the 1970s just as the tidal waves of hyrdrogenated vegetable oil and super-sized gluttony were about to fatten up the heartland of the US of A.
Trucks, cars, highways, landscape, good writing. "You cannot travel on the path, before you have become the Path itself."
PHB
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Monday, November 9, 2015
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