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halo effect
Posted by Melinda Green Harvey
Another day, another mono print.
I can’t seem to stop myself, and wonder if I have perhaps developed some kind of odd fascination with my Speedball brayer? Or have become addicted to paintbrushes?
Either way, here we are.
Monoprint, 5.14.2026
lipstick gal series #4
Posted by Melinda Green Harvey
Well.
This is different.
During the years I’ve been shooting Route 66 I’ve developed weird fascinations with certain of the photos I made along the way. (You may remember Wide Elvis?) (Or the Murder Church?) And now here’s Lipstick Gal, a mannequin I met in Seligman Arizona. I’ve edited the photo quite a few times and made seven or so monoprints of her. This one is my current favorite…she’s printed on a page from a book that I found in a thrift store. The book’s title is How I Raised Myself from FAILURE TO SUCCESS in Selling (c) 1949.
Hey, hello, again. I just wandered away to research some stuff on the page I printed the L. Gal on. The address mentioned – 925 Filbert Street in Philadelphia – appears to now be in a block that’s a shopping mall/transit facility/parking garage. And the Mr. George J. DeArmand that’s referenced lived his whole life in Philadelphia; he had eight siblings, most of whom died while they were in theirs 20s. He made it all the way to age 91, and passed away in 1944. Apparently, his upholstery-and-hardware lifestyle was healthy. And he had no problem killing a whole day gabbing to a couple of salesmen.
What does Mr. DeArmand’s story have to do with the L. Gal? Not one single thing, except that she landed on the page I randomly pulled from a book.
original photograph 6.1.2023
printed 5.9.2026
BONUS:
Lipstick Gal – Seligman, Arizona
Wide Elvis – Braidwood, Illinois
Murder Church – Allenread, Texas
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Tags: 365 photo project, black and white photography, learning to see, Leica, Lipstick Gal, melinda green harvey, monoprint, one day one image, photo a day, photography, postaday, reasons to stop, road trip, route 66, take time to look, take time to see, texas, things i see, thoughtful seeing, travel photography
frozen treats
Posted by Melinda Green Harvey
It rained that day; as we drove we’d move in and out of the storm but it was either raining, about to rain, or just ending. It was the kind of rain that seemed to have been falling forever and would keep falling until the end of time. For someone an arid area, that stood out to me. For people in Port Barre, Louisiana, it was just a Sunday.
The clouds were catching up to us again, so we stopped only long enough to get a photo of this ice cream cone…
Bonus: maybe you know that I’ve been working on a series of monoprints from my ongoing Route 66 project; sometimes, just for fun, I do one that’s not Route 66. Like this one:
Port Barre, Louisiana
photographed 10.22.2017
One Day | One Image 