Zach Barocas, Diasporist Diarist
There’s a wonderful scene in Wim Wenders’s Tokyo-Ga where he visits a model food manufacturing facility. He’s discussing the difference between things and the images of things.1 This is my small contribution to that mode, seen on the street in Manhattan.
A pretty hot topic at the time and something we should no doubt be paying closer attention to right now.↩
A friend had just played Radio City Music Hall. My wife and I were waiting for him on 51st Street when the reflection caught my eye.
Cu-bop, 1958.
Cadman Plaza, Downtown Brooklyn, NY.
Vietnam 1 & 2 (At the Peace Church), 1972.
I don’t know what happened to this car. I used to see it on the street occasionally but haven’t for a few years now. The day I made this photograph was hot and damp, humid following a late-summer shower or storm. It was a perfect day for a shot like this, the hazy warm light, the blue tint of the auto glass and paint.
The Unpredictability of Predictability, 1979.
🎵 Listening to Eye of I by James Brandon Lewis.
I’ve Known Rivers, 1982.
Beggars and Stealers, 1977.