House in Summertime, Greensboro, Alabama, 1972
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Been thinking about Christenberry. It's hard to pick a favorite, but this one has always been meaningful to me. .
In Southern Photographs he says:
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On one of my few winter trips home, in December 1972, I drove around the outskirts of Greensboro and found this house, literally a shack. It was near dusk. Smoke was coming out the chimney. .
I knocked on the door, and an elderly black lady answered. I asked, "Do you mind if I photograph your house?" And she said, "No Sir, but you must understand we could only paint as high as we could reach." That set me back a little. It was rather funny and sad at the same time. I said, "Yes Ma'am, I understand." I made a few pictures, and in a few minutes she opened the door again and said, "Let me turn on my Christmas lights for you."
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The next year, in the heat of July, I went back and photographed it again, and every year after that, too, until 1976, and it was no longer there. It had disappeared from the face of the earth, along with everything that had been in the yard.
The Kitchen at Ollie Irene. Photographed a couple days before they closed as part of a recent project. #cooks #birmingham #ollieirene #hasselbladcfv50c
Finished the treehouse.
Supermoon. #supermoon
The work continues...built the floor, framed out the trapdoor.
Trent Richardson for ESPN. #tbt #alabama #football #runningback #nationalchampionship #rings
Recently procured an old book of Arnold Newman portraits.
Mayor, Secretary of the Interior, Director of the National Park Service, Congresswoman. 16th Street Baptist Church.
Truly. Chi crew.
The Dolder.
Treehouse - WIP.
Most wonderful framing and blocking, throughout. #kurosawa #highandlow #criterioncollection #librarycard
Treehouse, Phase One.