Beauty Shop
All the ladies with their standing Saturday appointments were fixed up for the week, and the beauty shop was silent.
I am increasingly drawn toward scenes like this, without people but with ample examples of their humble presence. I love seeing leggy houseplants, wallpaper borders, those big old-fashioned hair dryers, the messy stacks of magazines – all evidence of lives being lived.
Pleasanton, Nebraska
photographed 8.30.2014
Posted on September 24, 2014, in Photography and tagged 365 photo project, Beauty shop, black and white photography, melinda green harvey, monochrome, nebraska, NIK Silver Efex Pro 2, one day one image, photo a day, photography, pleasanton, pleasanton nebraska. Bookmark the permalink. 6 Comments.
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And, look at that door to the right. They must lock up lots of money!
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I think they lock up the perm solution – you can’t be too careful!
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Frozen in time – as if the people just left. Poignant.
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Yes – frozen in time. Since I came back from that photography class in the summer, I’ve been thinking a lot about themes in what I shoot. One reason I am drawn to these sorts of scenes is that I like the poignance of seeing the evidence of lives but no actual people. In many ways, it illustrates what it’s like living in a part of the country that has, for many years, experienced steady population declines.
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I think this theme is an extension of your ‘To Be Sold Eventually To Strangers’ series, but without your personal memories to go with it. There is a lot of movement in a shot like this – the ghosts of people not quite present, not long departed.
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My feeling when I see scenes like this always is that in the time it takes me to blink my eyes, and then blink them again, the people vanish and the reappear. Only I never see them…
I can see the connection with my “To be sold…” series, which I need to return to. Just not right now: it’s too hard.
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