Author: WmX

I stumbled off the track to success in 1968, started chasing shadows that summer. Since then, In addition to farm-laborer and newspaper photographer my occupational incarnations include dishwasher, janitor, retail photo clerk, plumber, HVAC repairman, auto mechanic, CAT scan technologist, computer worker and politico (whatever it takes to buy a camera.) I am on the road to understanding black and white photography.

Two forty A.C.

trucker driver 1972
Vehicular air condition existed in 1972 but it seemed more the exception than the rule. “I’ve got two forty AC, two windows down, forty miles an hour.”

Schlesinger and Duncan

AMS and ABD
If we refuse a role, we cannot expect smaller, weaker, and poorer nations to ensure world order for us. We are not going to achieve a new world order without paying for it in blood as well as in words and money. Perhaps our leaders should put the question to the people: what do we want the United Nations to be?–Arthur Schlesinger

photo by Paul Wickliffe, 1969?