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Scene in Smithland, Kentucky: photo by Ben Shahn for U.S. Resettlement Administration, October 1935 (Farm Security Administration/Office of War Information Collection, Library of Congress)
Moment lost in time, it was nice almost knowing you. You almost didn't exist, in fact might not have existed. But then, you pretty much had to be there
in order for there to be a next moment, and so on.
There one stood, by the bank. And the long
day slowly passed.
Bank in Smithland, Kentucky: photo by Ben Shahn for U.S. Resettlement Administration, October 1935 (Farm Security Administration/Office of War Information Collection, Library of Congress)
Scene in Smithland, Kentucky: photo by Ben Shahn for U.S. Resettlement Administration, October 1935 (Farm Security Administration/Office of War Information Collection, Library of Congress)
Post Office in Smithland, Kentucky: photo by Ben Shahn for U.S. Resettlement Administration, October 1935 (Farm Security Administration/Office of War Information Collection, Library of Congress)
Billboard advertisement for gasoline service station, Middlesboro, Kentucky: photo by Ben Shahn for U.S. Resettlement Administration, October 1935 (Farm Security Administration/Office of War Information Collection, Library of Congress)
Scene in Smithland, Kentucky: photo by Ben Shahn for U.S. Resettlement Administration, October 1935 (Farm Security Administration/Office of War Information Collection, Library of Congress)
2 comments:
artists sometimes tend not to
look at generative people
usually where art has flourished
in modern times...since the
Renaissance, there is a healthy
middle class
In early 16th c. English, the borning days of the mother tongue, "health" and "wealth" had the same meaning.
You can find the usage of "wealth" to mean "health" throughout the poems of Wyatt, for example.
But of course Wyatt died a good two and a half centuries before the mother tongue gave birth to the modern meaning of "class". He wouldn't have understood what it meant.
Standing outside the bank in Smithland, Kentucky in October 1935, maybe it was one of those cases of "you had to be there".
(A special kind of historical desolation, I guess I mean...or for that matter standing outside of anything that ever held the money, anywhere, at any time.)
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