Barbers
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Vicksburg, Warren County, Mississippi. March, 1936.
Tightly cropped from an 8x10 inch nitrate negative by Walker Evans for the Resettlement Administration.
Because today is Monday and we should keep our beards in line for the week, Lol. Happy week ahead my friends.
* I'm grateful for visit, favs and comments of my photo.
I got a big smile after taking this shot...went inside and showed them all the picture... and later mailed it on to the barber...
Providence and Worcester Train GRWO is seen coming off the Gardner Branch at Barbers in Worcester, MA.
Camera: Nikon F90X
Film: Kodak Ultramax 400
Digital scanning by Atkins Photo Lab, Adelaide
“Barber shops are pretty much the same the world over.”
With this statement Geoff Dyer analyses the way photographs of barber shops have recurred throughout the history of photography. Dyer does this for many subjects in his rollicking survey, “The Ongoing Moment” (Vintage Books, 2007). I suppose their attraction to photographers has been the fact they are places of communion, where genuine conversation can be had with plenty of light reading matter at hand. And then of course there is the colour.
Here the colour of this Kodak Ultramax 400 film is restrained.
Barber shops are having a boom time in Launceston, like tattoo parlours. But The Celtic Barber in Invermay reminds us of the important links between Ireland and Tasmania. Not far from here is a park known as the Caledonian Square.
McCormick's Barber Shop, previously Harvey's Progressive Barbershop - 1st and Broad, Richmond VA. The Coca-Cola sign, erected in 1930, has long been a downtown landmark.
11th August: "Barber. Next cutting 21August. 1000-2pm"
Chiltern. A small town in northern Victoria, south of Albury. Gold was discovered in 1858.
21st August: We're in Mulwala not Chiltern😁
... or do they call it a hair salon downtown.
... two most beautiful profiles
A moment frozen in time; he will be forgotten as he blends into all of her customers.
His hair will grow back and he will be at another barber for another hair cut.
I paraphrase Joel Meyerowitz; "As street photographers we tear a piece of time out from the continuum, freeze it and hold onto it."
As Brooks Jensen says; Then a very interesting thing happens. As we look upon such images, their memory of that moment become part of our experience.
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