I’ve seen a few of these images before, but I’m not sure I ever knew the photographers name. I think this series makes such a statement about America, and it does it beautifully. According to Getty Museum website : “Jim Dow’s interest in those places where people enact their everyday rituals, from the barbershop to the baseball park, has guided the path of his photographic career. Dow is concerned with capturing “human ingenuity and spirit” in endangered regional traditions–a barbershop with a heavy patina of town life covering the walls, the opulent time capsule of an old private New York club, the densely packed display of smoking pipes in an English tobacconist shop–all artifacts of a vanishing era. “