Monday, December 20, 2010

Carl Mydans: Narrow Street / Samuel Beckett: neither


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Narrow street, New Brunswick, New Jersey
: photo by Carl Mydans, February 1936


To and fro in shadow from inner to outer shadow



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Bed and sitting room, Hamilton County, Ohio: photo by Carl Mydans, December 1935


from impenetrable self to impenetrable unself by way of neither



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View of the Manville Works, Manville, New Jersey: photo by Carl Mydans, February 1936


as between two lit refuges whose doors once neared gently close, once away turned from gently part again



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Tenement kitchen, Hamilton County, Ohio
: photo by Carl Mydans, December 1935


beckoned back and forth and turned away



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The Calco Chemical Company near Bound Brook, New Jersey: photo by Carl Mydans, February 1936


heedless of the way, intent on the one gleam or the other



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South River, New Jersey
: photo by Carl Mydans, February 1936


unheard footfalls only sound



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Bed and sitting room, Hamilton County, Ohio: photo by Carl Mydans, December 1935


till at last halt for good, absent for good from self and other



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Van Horn Street, Hamilton County, Ohio: photo by Carl Mydans, December 1935


then no sound



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Interior of a Negro dwelling, Hamilton County, Ohio: photo by Carl Mydans, December 1935


then gently light unfading on that unheeded neither


Image, Source: digital file from intermediary roll film

Room of white man, Hamilton County, Ohio: photo by Carl Mydans, December 1935


unspeakable home



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Tent squatter, common scene along the Ohio River, Hamilton County, Ohio: photo by Carl Mydans, December 1935

Photos by Carl Mydans from Farm Security Administration/Office of War Information Collection, Library of Congress

Samuel Beckett: neither, 1976