shots, notes and stray thoughts

the pictures below by joel sternfeld is one of my all time favorites. it’s from his  book american prospects.

so i was excited when i saw, that blake andrews had an explanation on how the picture came to be on his blog. here’s a short extract:

According to Clark, a developer had bought the property planning to build a subdivision but before he could proceed he needed to raze the existing structure. He offered the house up to the MVFD to burn in a controlled way. The MVFD would get some practical training and the developer would be rid of the structure. A win-win situation.

cool!

update: i just realized that andrews is doing a whole series of revisited posts where he’s looking closer at a lot of the pictures from the book, attaching old newspaper articles relating to the event and such. sweet!