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WithKen Oharas photographic series of one hour exposure portraits create in their final form a new identity for each subject. The traditional evaluations we make of a portrait, i. e., How do you look? are lost in the blur of a passing hour. The soft outlines of heads and bodies take on a new power in their loss of detail, and we look to the objects that frame each sitter to give us a context for identity. Like Meatyard before him, Oharas collective

age has forced me to pay attention

our thoughts go to its missing inhabitant—an ethereal presence

build forts in strange

That is what Jim Mangan has captured in these pictures of both the changing boys and their changing world

Jack Pierson produces pictures that are deliberately sensual and sentimental

Jack Woody returned to the surviving glass-plate negatives

Shortly after his travels began he found a camera stuffed behind a car seat and began to take pictures

John is one of the few who came to it first as a cowboy and only later as a photographer

from his camera and onto the gallery wall

and this transformation can produce beautiful results

determination

Every subject is photographed in a frontal pose