Musical Accompaniment: Time has Proven I was Wrong, by Hank Williams, Senior.
The always fascinating Paul Strand stands out as someone who really understood the concept of photography as an Art.
This is City Hall Park, from 1915.
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Will I reiterate for the millionth time how much I wish people would still dress up like this in today’s world? No, I guess I won’t this time.
Strand loved the geometric shapes all over New York, But he could also find beauty in the uneven telegraph poles connecting far away locations.
Just a year after City Hall Park, Strand shot Telegraph Poles .
It flips on its head the stereotype that cities are wild and the country is safe.Telegraph Pole is as wild and dangerous a scene as can be from orderly, polished New York City .
Amon Carter Museum
More Paul Strand posts HERE!
old spirituals 
i love the nyc picture!
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Those telephone poles look as if they might have met a tornado. The NYC pic is wonderful! It’s like capturing time. Doesn’t it make you just wonder where everyone was going? I think those four ladies were off to do some shopping. The man smoking the pipe may be heading to the NYC Library. I do love seeing the old pictures with the very smartly dressed people, no trash or graffiti anywhere, but very shortly they were to face the first world war and the Spanish Flu.
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