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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Vital Spark" data-source="post: 9347" data-attributes="member: 668">I have to differ on the point of wanting to hang it. I do not have a print, but I have a bound book that contains the photo, and I often gaze into it and consider it's meaning ( along with many other photos contained there-in and elsewhere). The general opinion seems to be that it has some root in race relations, as it was taken in Mississippi in 1970, I supose it would have been hard not to find that undercurrent. For me, (looking at a better reproduction) there is a funny reversal of the assumed roles in the postures of the men. The man in the foreground is suited formally, and looks uncomfortable, whilst the man in the car seems to be casually dressed and composed. The man to the back of the standing pair, is much more relaxed in his attire and stance, as if he is in his comfort zone. If I were to impose a story on it, I would imagine that they were at a old family home of the foreground man, perhaps at an estate sale, and that the others were in the place of acquiring property of which he once felt possessed. Perhaps that is a product of where I come from and the times I live through.  But that goes to my original question. Is this meaningful image, with it's deliberate inexactness and ambivalence as pleasing as this: [ATTACH]919[/ATTACH]© Irving PennAn image of precise control over every aspect and fairly concise in it's subject. But i will posit that the responses I recieved have already settled that.</blockquote>

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