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magic city

Dec 9

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Somebody wrote “Magic City” on the back of this image and that is absolutely all I know about it.

I imagine those clouds are dust and not rain. And that those buildings are some kind of farmworker housing.

But all the real details shall be always a mystery.

vintage photo
unknown date and location

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cousins, the day we got in trouble

Dec 8

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I’ve been looking through a stack of old family photos lately, and that’s how I found this gem.

That’s me on the left, with my two cousins and my sister. I don’t know what we were in trouble for having done, but I look AT LEAST 100% guilty the way I’m not making eye contact and am sort of slumped down in an effort to (maybe) disappear.

And let’s not even get me started on whatever the hell was going on with my bangs…

Littlefield, Texas
photographed summer 1964

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sharks that can swim on the land

Dec 7

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At this point, those iconic Cadillacs are more spray paint than car. In case you were wondering.

Cadillac Ranch
Amarillo, Texas
photographed 11.29.2024

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a very pale ada ruth

Dec 3

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There was a point in his life that my dad did quite a bit of photography. He was a civil engineer so very few of his images were anything other than just-the-facts sort of photos.
But this one. This one makes me laugh because I imagine that he set this shot up to see what it was like to be “artistic.” That’s my mom, being (possibly) blinded by that refrigerator-based beacon (I don’t think late 1940s refrigerators came with that level of light inside so it feels like there was some level of planning and implementation to this.) There’s no negatives, no other similar photos that I can find. So this was the best one of the bunch? Or the only one?
No one knows and it doesn’t even matter.
unknown location and date
scanned from vintage print

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calm horseman

Dec 2

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I don’t know – I just like the way this gentleman seemed so calm and yet in command when he was on that horse. And I love that he had a pen in his shirt pocket. And don’t even get me started on how his dusty black hat is obviously a work hat.

The horse, by the way, sold for $28,000.

Levelland, Texas
photographed 11.23.2024

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