Peter Behrens's Blog, page 392

California 1955 Dodge Custom Royal

from Mike Moore. Afternoon, First Street, Benicia, Calif.

The Ford F600 Dumptruck, E.B. White, and Brooklin Maine

I'm reading The Letters of E.B. White, the edition that was put together by his granddaughter, Martha White.  E.B. of course lived in North Brooklin, our neck of the woods. In a letter from 1939 that I read today, he mentions owning a truck. Have to track down a photo of that truck. Stay tuned.  Meanwhile I found this one about a mile down the road from the house where E.B. and Katherine White lived.

from Mike Moore. Afternoon, First Street, Benicia, Calif.

from Mike Moore. Afternoon, First Street, Benicia, Calif.

El Paso Ford F1

Thanks to Katherine Shaughnessy, en route to a root canal,  for this F1 parked outside the dentist's office in El Paso.

Cambridge Chevrolet Fleetline

Cambridge is not really an ecosystem that supports old trucks or cars. So it was a shock to encounter this Chevrolet Fleetline yesterday . Those are brand new Coker whitewalls but this car looks mostly original, a survivor. Didn't peer under the hood. The body looks very solid. I wonder if that is a 65-year-old paint job? We've posted Chevys of this era before, including this hotted-up Fleetmaster by Dodo Brockman.

Banff Fargo

from  Alex Emond. "This orange Fargo was catching the late day sun, making it ridiculously orange. It may be orange but it's a cherry. This truck has been in Banff since it was new. Long may she run."-AE

1972 Dodge Challenger

from Mike Moore, the painter. "Near the post office (Benicia CA)"

Stoney Reserve, foothills. province of Alberta

these from Colin Washburn, on the road:
Alberta 22 is one of the most beautiful roads in the world, if you ask me. Especially the stretch from Rocky Mountain House to Pincher Creek. That's the Rocky Mountain front range to the right, if you're heading south. I always see bald eagles on this road.
In Alberta, they are called Texas Gates. In Texas they're called cattle guards. In Switzerland -- Grille Canadien. Go figure. Below: horse race at Morley, on the Stoney Reserve.

More from Shore: Meeting Street, Charleston

     Meeting Street, Charleston South Carolina 1974

Stephen Shore: American Surfaces

Stephen Shore, American Surfaces: Queens, New York, April 1972

from a review of Shore's 2014 show, posted on Esse 
"...Shore has the unique ability to document vernacular subjects with the formal casualness of a vacation snapshot but in a way that invests them with a kind of existential monumentality. In other words, he makes the overlooked details of everyday life important, plucking them from their place in space and time with the click of a well-placed shutter. Seen together, his photographs of American roadsides from the 1970s look as contemporary as his images of modern day Abu Dhabi. Scale is often the only giveaway about “when” we are seeing in Shore’s photographs. Keeping the size of the original images, the show lets the older snapshots brush up (sometimes quite literally) against the artist’s more recent large-scale prints..."