Mark Cohen and Wilkes-Barre

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.