For 50 bucks I will come to your house dressed like this and play chess with you.
New York, circa 1970s
From Helen Levitt
Mrs Taylor
South Australia, 1930
From E.O. Hoppé’s Australia
“Woke up this morning with a terrific urge to lie in bed all day and read.”
— Raymond Carver
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Paris, France, 1983
From Édouard Boubat: A Gentle Eye
The Soap Box Brothers
Georgia, 1937
From John Gutmann: The Photographer at Work
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Graphite and digital colour, 2003
…the companions of our childhood always possess a certain power over our minds which hardly any later friend can obtain.
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— Raymond Carver
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