Autumn leaves still hanging on
I was driving in the country and came upon this disheveled house with an old rusted gasoline pump. Unbelievable that no one had taken it up. The houses around this property were all lived in and not in any disarray. Strange.
“To the complaint, ‘There are no people in these photographs,’ I respond, There are always two people: the photographer and the viewer.”
― Ansel Adams
“A picture is a secret about a secret, the more it tells you the less you know.”
― Diane Arbus
Reading on the Block Island Ferry
“I work from awkwardness. By that I mean I don’t like to arrange things. If I stand in front of something, instead of arranging it, I arrange myself.
Diane Arbus, American photographer March 14, 1923 – July 26, 1971, noted for her surreal photographs
An old pharmacy in small New England town, it also has an old fashion soda fountain inside.
“Photographers deal in things which are continually vanishing and when they have vanished there is no contrivance on earth which can make them come back again.
Henri-Cartier Bresson
The Lady Next Door, an antique store on a side street.
A weathered apartment over an old-fashioned hardware store in New England. I particularly was attracted to the windows and the worn shingles.
