Dead House, Dead Life, Dead Dreams.

Roger Gauthier challenged me to start posting on his new Artphotokebek FB page, so I did, like you do when asked. I put a FB resolution (gag) images of one of my Dead Farm Houses up, and of course it did it no justice. So . . . I went back and searched through Memory Lane (my Hard Drive in reality) and started digging up those lost memories.

As I believe I have mentioned in several other places, I have been documenting, as best and safely as I can, the final Death throws of the American family farm. What I mean is, the people are long gone now, but in some, out-of-the-way places, the building (homes) that housed these laughing generations of children and parents still stand as mute testimony to what we have allowed to die, in the name of MORE.

In this case it was a set shot, doe as part of a project for one of my classes at Herron, so this is a scan of the 200ASA B&W negative. so some grain is to be expected, and to my belief, adds rather than detracts for the emotional impact of the image. I think that all over the country sciens pretty much like this happened at some point need the end.

I have several, pretty sad and depressing images I could show you, but That would lead me down a road I would rather not take this blog, at least not at this time. So, instead, I will use a B&W image taken while documenting this afrontery to humanity, but not as dark as they come, just a bit, it is in B&W, and B&W carries emotions like water carries fish.

The link below is the link on youtube for the video if you don’t like Rock or Bob Dylan don’t look at it.

Jim

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pfxf4navWaE

James Longster, © 2014

Dead Dreams