counting down the days V

A tantalizing and mischievous selection of photos found in the LIFE archive.
The set's only description being its title:
Kansas City Crime, May 5th, George Skadding
It must have been an interesting summer...

counting down the days IV

The last days of summer.
Found these in the LIFE archive.
The Kansas City All Girl Hotrod Club--Francis Miller

 

 

counting the days III

Summer countdown cont.Roger Minick

Roger Minick Sightseer Series

  

my first science fiction novel doesn't seem to be fiction at all

"Who could say where town or wilderness began? Who could say which owned what and what owned which? There was always and forever that indefinable place where the two struggled and one of them won for a season to possess a certain avenue, a dell, a glen, a tree, a bush. The thin lapping of the great continental sea of grass and flower, starting far out in lonely farm country, moved inward with the thrust of seasons. Each night the wilderness, the meadows, the far country flowed down-creek through the ravine and welled up in town with a smell of grass and water, and the town was disinhabited and dead and gone back to earth. And each morning a little more ravine edged up into town, threatening to swamp garages like leaking rowboats, devour ancient cars which had been left to the flaking mercies of rain and therefore rust...."

Marjorie on The Farm circa 2009

"...The ravine was indeed the place where you came to look at the two things of life, the ways of man and the ways of the natural world. The town was, after all, only a large ship filled with constantly moving survivors, bailing out the grass, chipping away the rust. Now and again a lifeboat, a shanty, kin to the mother ship, lost out to the quiet storm of seasons, sank down in silent waves of termite and ant into the swallowing ravine to feel the flicker of grasshoppers rattling like dry paper in hot weeds, become soundproofed with spider dust and finally, in an avalanche of shingle and tar, collapse like kindling shrines into a bonfire, which thunderstorms ignited with blue lightning, while flash-photographing the triumph of the wilderness."
-Ray Bradbury Dandelion Wine

More from The Farm (2009) HERE.

ike

This is the most powerful image in my thrift shop collection of abandoned images. I remember snatching it so fast from a stack of images in a Kansas City flea market booth that I nearly ripped it. Sometimes I like to convince myself the hunchy man on the left with the camera or binoculars on his arm is Dwight Eisenhower or Bob Hope. 

photographing photographs

Phil Jung

I have a folder full of artworks/artists' files....and most of them are photographs of photographs. 

If I were an art collector, I think this would be my specialty.

Snapshot left on the moon by Apollo 16

Adam Bartos

Alec Soth

Klea Mckenna

Duane Michals

Edward Burtynsky

Hee Jin Kang

Anslem Kiefer

Lee Friedlander

Lee Friedlander

Lee Friendlander

Leslie Hewitt

Marcelo Brodsky

Marcelo Brodsky

Marcelo Brodsky

Massimo Sordi

Michael Huey

Mitch Epstein

Paul Graham

Robert Frank

Sarah Girner

Fazal Sheikh

Stephen Shore

Uta Barth

William Eggleston

Wright Morris

Zoe Leonard