scott kirkpatrick said:Are you thinking of Robert Adams? He could compose whole symphonies out of ticky-tacky.
Malvina Reynolds, made popular by Pete Seeger iirc
Little boxes on the hillside, Little boxes made of tickytacky Little boxes on the hillside, little boxes all the same.
There’s a green one and a pink one and a blue one and a yellow one.
And they’re all made out of ticky tacky and they all look just the same.
And the people in the houses all went to the university, Where they were put in boxes and they came out all the same.
And there’s doctors and there’s lawyers, and business executives.
And they’re all made out of ticky tacky and they all look just the same.
And they all play on the golf course and drink their martinis dry, And they all have pretty children and the children go to school.
And the children go to summer camp and then to the university, Where they are put in boxes and they come out all the same.
And the boys go into business and marry and raise a family.
In boxes made of ticky tacky and they all look just the same.
edit: Pete Seeger sings "Little Boxes"
- DL
Added by Asher from parent thread!
1) Little Boxes (see Don Lashier's posts in the Vernacular Architecture thread, in the Photography as Art forum.)
In *Ear to the Ground*, an album by Malvena Reynolds, who wrote the song
and in
*Pete Seeger's Greatest Hits*, where Pete Seeger covers Malvena's song.
Relevant to "ticky-tacky" and the "little boxes" of Daly City, under discussion in the thread "Vernacular Architecture." See links to the Partridge photos that Don gives in one of his posts to that thread. Here's one of them:
http://www.photoliaison.com/Images/...ng, Daly City, California, late 1960s_jpg.htm
2) *This Land Was Made for You and Me: The Life and Songs of Woody Guthrie* by Elizabeth Partridge
The author is another of the artists under discussion in "Vernacular Photography."
And then there's Imogen Cunningham.
NB: I'm about to max out my credit card buying Vernacular books and cds. But this is such an exciting field to learn about--and the photography end of it is all new to me.
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