Photographs

Items in this set

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  Dance at the Grange Hall

  Ruth Calder · 1961

  Calder's flash caught the hall mid-turn: the dancers blurred, the band sharp, and in the corner an old farmer asleep on the coats.
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  Dry Lake, Morning

  Sol Becker · 1977

  Cracked lakebed in low sun, each plate of mud with its own shadow. Becker printed it dark so the cracks would read as lines on a map.
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  Main Street in Snow

  Ruth Calder · 1956

  Harlow's Main Street during the 1956 storm, from the second floor of the bank. The two figures crossing are the Paulsen sisters, on their way to open the bakery.
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  Postmistress with Bicycle

  Ruth Calder · 1958

  Calder met Harlow's postmistress on the Grange road and asked her to stand still for one picture. She stood still for four.
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  Salt Flat

  Sol Becker · 1975

  Becker waited three days for a sky with no clouds at all. The figure on the horizon is his assistant, sent walking until she was small enough.
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  Shift Change, Harlow Mill

  Ruth Calder · 1952

  Calder stood at the mill gate with her camera at waist height so the men would not notice it. Most of them look past her, toward home.
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  Water Tower

  Sol Becker · 1979

  One of the few Becker photographs with a structure in it. He liked water towers because they were the only things in the desert that admitted they were waiting.