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Boy listening to radio set and reading book: stereograph print by Underwood & Underwood, 1909 (Library of Congress)
Hotel Wisdom, Wisdom, Montana (pop. 385): photo by John Vachon, April 1942 (Farm Security Administration/Office of War Information Collection, Library of Congress)
Hotel room, Hotel Wisdom, Wisdom, Montana (pop. 385): photo by John Vachon, April 1942 (Farm Security Administration/Office of War Information Collection, Library of Congress)
Street scene, Newport News, Virginia: photo by John Vachon, September 1937 (Farm Security Administration/Office of War Information Collection, Library of Congress)
Water boy on Little Rock, Arkansas/Missouri state line section of the war emergency oil pipeline from Longview, Texas to Norris City, Illinois: photo by John Vachon, October 1942 (Farm Security Administration/Office of War Information Collection, Library of Congress)
Pot firer and assistants, faces painted with salve for protection against fumes of hot asphalt paint, on Little Rock, Arkansas/Missouri state line section of the war emergency oil pipeline from Longview, Texas to Norris City, Illinois: photo by John Vachon, October 1942 (Farm Security Administration/Office of War Information Collection, Library of Congress)
Worker preparing to crawl through section of pipe to clean out any dirt before pipe is welded to main pipeline stem, Arkansas/Texas state line to Gurdon, Arkansas section of the war emergency oil pipeline from Longview, Texas to Norris City, Illinois: photo by John Vachon, October 1942 (Farm Security Administration/Office of War Information Collection, Library of Congress)
A cotton picker crossing the pipeline, Little Rock, Arkansas to Missouri/Arkansas state line section of the war emergency oil pipeline from Longview, Texas to Norris City, Illinois: photo by John Vachon, October 1942 (Farm Security Administration/Office of War Information Collection, Library of Congress)
Sunray, Texas. Carbon black plant workers washing up at the end of the day: photo by John Vachon, November 1942
Tom,
ReplyDeleteWhat stories these pictures 'tell' -- none of them told. ". . .nothing/ but to regard. . ."
6.25
light coming into fog against invisible
ridge, song sparrow calling from branch
in foreground, wave sounding in channel
motion of material particle,
is action described by
particular form, is nothing
but to regard, come to
silver of low sun reflected in channel,
wingspan of pelican flapping across it
Steve,
ReplyDeleteLight coming into fog here now also, with difficulty, bits of blue through cloud, beginning another story...
(I've wondered what book it might be that that boy in the top photo is, or shall I say was, reading.)
Well, as he's evidently taking/making notes, perhaps one ought to say not "reading" but "studying"... no time like the present for serious scholarship -- "Do It Now"!
ReplyDelete(And meanwhile there's the corollary question, what's he listening to?)
Tom,
ReplyDeleteYes, absolutely, me too -- what is/was he reading (and listening to), another of those stories that we don't get to hear, here. . . .
6.27
light coming into fog against invisible
ridge, song sparrows calling from field
in foreground, sound of wave in channel
order of lines, position of
figure after painting
real of “to call,” thinking
in this way, calls to
silver of sunlight reflected in channel,
shadowed canyon of ridge across from it