Arthur Siegel: Women of the Home Front, Detroit, 1941

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Detroit, Michigan. Poker hand and hands of girl players: photo by Arthur S. Siegel, Summer 1941 (Office of War Information/Farm Security Administration Collection, Library of Congress)

Detroit, Michigan. Girls playing cards and drinking Coca Cola: photo by Arthur S. Siegel, Summer 1941 (Office of War Information/Farm Security Administration Collection, Library of Congress)

Detroit, Michigan. Girl putting on lipstick and another girl straightening seams on her stockings: photo by Arthur S. Siegel, Summer 1941

Detroit, Michigan. Girl picking up mail placed under door: photo by Arthur S. Siegel, Summer 1941

Detroit, Michigan. Group of girls reading their mail: photo by Arthur S. Siegel, Summer 1941

Detroit, Michigan. Back of girl's head showing her coiffure at a hair styling show: photo by Arthur S. Siegel, December 1941

Detroit, Michigan. Models and audience at a hair styling show: photo by Arthur S. Siegel, December 1941

Detroit, Michigan. Models and loving cups that they won at a hair styling show: photo by Arthur S. Siegel, December 1941

Detroit, Michigan. Women drying their hair in the beauty shop at the Crowley-Milner department store: photo by Arthur S. Siegel, July 1941

Detroit, Michigan. Salesman demonstrating mattress to woman shopper at the Crowley-Milner department store: photo by Arthur S. Siegel, July 1941

Detroit, Michigan. Salesmen demonstrating refrigerators to women shoppers at the Crowley-Milner department store: photo by Arthur S. Siegel, July 1941

Detroit, Michigan. Towel department at the Crowley-Milner department store: photo by Arthur S. Siegel, July 1941

Detroit, Michigan. Sheet department at the Crowley-Milner department store: photo by Arthur S. Siegel, July 1941

Detroit, Michigan. Corset department at the Crowley-Milner department store: photo by Arthur S. Siegel, July 1941

Detroit, Michigan. Radio broadcast in the Crowley-Milner department store: photo by Arthur S. Siegel, July 1941







Detroit, Michigan. Women waiting in line to pay bills at the charge account window of the Crowley-Milner department store: photo by Arthur S. Siegel, July 1941







Detroit, Michigan. Class for telephone operators at the Crowley-Milner department store: photo by Arthur S. Siegel, July 1941







Detroit, Michigan. Class for receivers of telephone orders at the Crowley-Milner department store: photo by Arthur S. Siegel, July 1941







Detroit, Michigan. Telephone operator taking telephone orders at the Crowley-Milner department store: photo by Arthur S. Siegel, July 1941







Detroit, Michigan. Executive at the Crowley-Milner department store: photo by Arthur S. Siegel, July 1941







Detroit, Michigan. Sign in the window of the Crowley-Milner department store: photo by Arthur S. Siegel, July 1941

Detroit, Michigan. Head of the art department with new model at the Crowley-Milner department store: photo by Arthur S. Siegel, July 1941

Photos by Arthur S. Siegel from Office of War Information/Farm Security Administration Collection, Library of Congress

Flag Waving: Labor Day in the Heartlands, 1939-1942

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Labor Day poster distributed to war plants and labor organizations: Anton Bruehl, August 1942







Labor Day, Greendale, Wisconsin: photo by John Vachon, September 1939







Park scene, Labor Day, Milwaukee, Wisconsin: photo by John Vachon, September 1939







Spectators at Labor Day parade in Du Bois, Pennsylvania: photo by Jack Delano, September 1940







Labor Day parade at Du Bois, Pennsylvania: photo by Jack Delano, September 1940







Spectators and theatre at Labor Day parade in Du Bois, Pennsylvania: photo by Jack Delano, September 1940







Spectators at Labor Day parade in Du Bois, Pennsylvania: photo by Jack Delano, September 1940







Detroit, Michigan. Ford workers carrying flag and banners in the Labor Day parade: photo by Arthur S. Siegel, September 1942







Detroit, Michigan. Local 600 of the Congress of Industrial Organizations (CIO); electrical workers electrocuting Hitler in the Labor Day parade: photo by Arthur S. Siegel, September 1942







Detroit, Michigan. Outhouse and clown at Labor Day parade with plea for buying of war bonds: photo by Arthur S. Siegel, September 1942







Detroit, Michigan. Women workers parading in the Labor Day parade: photo by Arthur S. Siegel, September 1942







Detroit, Michigan. Float in the Labor Day parade showing Uncle Sam as a huge blacksmith: photo by Arthur S. Siegel, September 1942







Detroit, Michigan. Murray Local Number Two of the Congress of Industrial Organizations (CIO) float in the Labor Day parade illustrating "Wings of the Victory" depending on air power: photo by Arthur S. Siegel, September 1942







Detroit, Michigan. Spectators at the Labor Day parade: photo by Arthur S. Siegel, September 1942







Detroit, Michigan. Float in the Labor Day parade showing relationship between the Army, Red Cross and industrial workers: photo by Arthur S. Siegel, September 1942







Detroit, Michigan. Workers' wives and children watching the Labor Day parade: photo by Arthur S. Siegel, September 1942







Detroit, Michigan. Little girl carrying American flag in the Labor Day parade: photo by Arthur S. Siegel, September 1942

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

Possessed: Varieties of Contemporary Religious Experience

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Bail Bonds (open all night), downtown Berkeley: photo by efo, 15 November 2009

The oneiric wind moving the curtains soundlessly, no one inside, shadows looking in through the windows.



In plate glass, the phantom images of shadow people are blown hither and thither through the fog, like straw persons.



A shuffle promenade of the faithful, not quite a progress. Forgotten by their gods.



Wrecked fields where torn papers scatter in the wind, in the desolate parking lots of abandoned churches.



Atop the featureless concrete building, three crosses outlined against the sky.



The wind moaning, the dog someone beats distantly howling, but the dark need not fear the dark.



Half the sky for praying, the other half for the shadowed beauties of the night.



The street preachers argue among themselves about the Rapture again, the when and how, but not the why.



The shadows looking in through broken windows, the wind carrying their voices off, into the oneiric night.

Woman with shopping cart and dog, Berkeley: photo by efo, 25 July 2010







True Light Church of God in Christ and passer-by, Peralta Villa, Oakland: photo by efo, 21 November 2009







Abandoned church, Oakland: photo by efo, 11 October 2009







Oakland Super Market: photo by efo, 11 October 2009







J. Alfred Smith, Sr. Training Academy, South Oakland: photo by efo, 11 October 2009







Bethlehem M.B.C. Church and passer-by, South Oakland: photo by efo, 11 October 2009

Vision of Hope Baptist Church, Triumph the Church & Kingdom of God in Christ, and Muay Thai kickboxing academy with cyclist at night (Gaskill, Emeryville, California): photo by efo, 20 December 2009

Allen Temple and passer-by No. 2, South Oakland: photo by efo, 11 October 2009







Islamic Center, Vallejo, California: photo by efo, 25 January 2010







Tabernacle of Praise, Richmond, California: photo by efo, 18 January 2010







Target is just a ride away, Richmond, California: photo by efo, 18 January 2010







Discover. Laugh. Howl. Vallejo, California: photo by efo, 31 January 2010







Son Bok Kim Died Suddenly (Longfellow, Emeryville, California) : photo by efo, 18 October 2009







Chain Drugstore, Exterior, Albany, California: photo by efo, 23 December 2009







Berkeley: photo by efo, 14 March 2010







Everything (Berkeley, California): photo by efo, 21 May 2010







Hall of Mirrors (Southwest Berkeley): photo by efo, 12 December 2010







Circle S (El Cerrito, California): photo by efo, 28 March 2010







Trailer at Circle S (El Cerrito, California): photo by efo, 28 March 2010







Metropolitan and Spiritual Church of Christ and passer-by (Hoover, Emeryville, California): photo by efo, 28 March 2010







Little Club (San Leandro, California): photo by efo, 18 September 2010







San Leandro: photo by efo, 18 September 2010







Alpha Omega (Webster, Oakland): photo by efo, 18 September 2010

All photos 2009 / 2010 by the great anonymous East Bay urban landscape photographer efo, a poet-documentarian of old time religion in bleak new times

(Re)Possessed

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December Twilight: Charles Burchfield, 1932-1938 (Wichita Museum of Art)

He creeps round the eerie empty houses at night

the cry of a lost soul illuminating a late window

on foreclosure and dispossession



The night stalker

alone, driving for hours through abandoned

neighborhoods, senses a curious



elation -- calmed for once, for once feeling almost

at home -- as though the light left on in

the vacant house had been lit



there for a ghost -- for him, alone --

Untitled 2152, 1998: photo by Todd Hido (Kaune, Sudendorf Gallery for Contemporary Photography, Cologne)

Untitled 2524, 1999: photo by Todd Hido (Kaune, Sudendorf Gallery for Contemporary Photography, Cologne)

Untitled 1968, 1997: photo by Todd Hido (Kaune, Sudendorf Gallery for Contemporary Photography, Cologne)

Untitled 1922-c, 1997: photo by Todd Hido (Kaune, Sudendorf Gallery for Contemporary Photography, Cologne)

Half million dollar house under foreclosure, Salinas, California: photo by Brendel, 13 February 2008