Bill and I went to the MOMA this weekend to see Into the Sunset: Photography's Image into the American west. During the time that the west was being settled, photography was emerging as a medium for documentation. It was incredible to see photos taken in the 1800's. It's like looking through time at the people who were just discovering and creating America. The exhibit also had modern photographs as well as a lot of photos from the 1970's and 1980's. It was nice to see them all mixed together, the new with the old and to really see the difference that a century makes. We got to talking about how this will be different in a hundred years from now. Back in the 1860's photography was a new advent and not so easy to come by. Now everyone is constantly taking pictures. Some are documentation. Some are art. And some are just for pleasure. It will be easy to find images of history so if something is going to make it into an art exhibit, it's going to have to be either a very special picture or of a special and bygone style, object or idea.
After we were finished at the museum, we noticed that 45th - 47th streets on Broadway were closed to traffic. Of course it was a mad house and people were just camping in the street. This is a ridiculous way to spend a perfectly good afternoon.
Then this happened:
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