Comments on: Two New Photo Books! Dos and Dont’s.

By: Photo Book

Photo Book — Sat, 02 Apr 2011 17:41:31 +0000

I am wondering if on that 1st picture. Was that an old picture taken from the old times? Or just being edited by the photographer? I love it! Nice shot you got!

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By: Andreas

Andreas — Fri, 03 Oct 2008 14:30:45 +0000

Looking forward to see how he approached this subject matter. It’s just too easy to just take photographs outside in the landscape or photograph peeling paint.
When I lived in Wyoming, we often wandered into these houses. There are lots of them still around and not only residential buildings.
Usually the houses are still owned by a family and on private property, given that it’s not unusual to own hundreds or thousands of arcres.
It is just cheaper to let them sit there and eventually disintegrate, then to tear them down. The space is not needed or as valuable as on the coasts, so there is no incentive to do anything about it. Just think of the way people just leave their old and broken vehicles sitting somewhere in the landscape or on their property, same goes for old farming equipment.
The dry climate preserves everything. I once found hundreds of canceled checks and other paperwork from 1903 in a farm house in western Nebraska, usually it’s just utensils and furniture. You just stand there wondering who lived there, what it was like, it’s very amazing.
The tragic side of the story is that some of these decaying houses are being used as housing for illegal migrant workers by local farmers – and the farmers don’t like it when people enter into these houses, abandoned or not. More than once someone show up with a shotgun in their hands, asking what we were doing and to leave the property.
Unfortunately I did not think about photographing anything back then, the country and lifestyle was just too new and overwhelming to me, I immersed in the lifestyle instead of documenting it.
One of those things that one wishes to be able to relive and do differently the next time around, if there is such a thing as a second chance.