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Harlan Erskine, from the series “Ten Convenient Stores”

He says about his own work:

“The catalogue for Walker Evans’s exhibition at The Museum of Modern Art, New York, prepared by John Szarkowski in 1971, opened with a quotation from Walt Whitman:

I do not doubt but the majesty and beauty of the world are latent in any iota of the world …I do not doubt there is far more in trivialities, insects, vulgar persons, slaves, dwarfs, weeds, rejected refuse, than I have supposed…

This passage has been quoted countless times in the context of photography with good reason. It allows us to sum up the difference between photographing flowers and photographing a milk bottle on a tenement fire escape. I tend to gravitate to photographing the milk bottle and not the flower.”

Crazy to stumble (or tumble I guess) on to this. Harlan is my old college roommate from freshman year. He carried a camera everywhere and it’s exciting to see his work making it out to a larger audience.