Richard
Main Street
Binghamton, NY
September 2008
If America slides into a depression, or even if it doesn't, can I be Walker Evans or Dorothea Lange ... pleeeease? If the government has spent $700 billion on the war and might spend $700 billion more on bailing out Wall Street, could it set aside just a little funding for a photo project examining the effects of the economic decline and job losses of the last half-decade on a vast number of Americans? Is it selfish of me to think that way at a time like this?
One can at least dream while working a day job and listening to horror stories on the radio ...
4 comments:
I just told a friend that the government should reinstate the FSA and send out a bunch of photographers to be 21st-century Dorothea Langes. I'd apply for that job, for sure.
The above Portrait is beautiful and I think this would be an amazing project for you.
I think you should apply for a Guggenheim fellowship or some other grant that allows you to capture these times!
tema,
if you'll use it as you say... and you have to promise... i'll give you $700 billion for your proposed work.
matt
Somewhere between $7,000 and $70,000 would be plenty ... and I promise!
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