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October 14, 2005 |
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Horse Shadow Well
FOUND by Phil Mason
in San Francisco, California
I found this photo in 1977 in San Francisco when I was an art school dropout trying to scrape by. I loved the photo from the get go and have had it ever since. In fact it has been in a frame on my wall for many years and now I pass it on.
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We collect FOUND stuff: love letters, birthday cards, kids' homework,
to-do lists, ticket stubs, poetry on napkins, telephone bills, doodles -
anything that gives a glimpse into someone
else's life. Anything goes...
my favorite part is the shadow at the bottom!
Dude, that is one scary shadow! What evil is about to befall our hero?
This is a Eudora Welty photograph. She was famous for caputuring images of the South in the 30s and 40s.
the shadows in this photo are so cool. This is one of my favorites, wish i had found it!
One of my favorite finds ever! I'd love to know exactly how she took it.
And I never knew Eudora Welty took photos!
great image. reminds me of Zorro and the Lone Ranger.
That's not a photo. The horse is not real. That's it.
strange how that shadow is standing where the photographer should be, but the shadow isn't holding a camera.
Wow! I can't imagine finding this. I might have wet my pants. It is really beautifully composed.
Thank you, Phil, for passing it on. this picture is awesome.. The man in black, plotting his revenge on Our Hero Cowboy.. it's just about perfect.
to Jess: Old camera with finder at waist-level.
i love the villian-shaped man at the bottom.
Reminds me of an old Tom Mix show. Or Roy Roger's stuffed horse, Trigger, that I saw in the old Apple Valley Museum in CA. I know Trigger was a Palomino, but this horse looks just as dead.
I love this photograph!
However, hhy are you so certain that it is Eudora Welty? Would a woman have worn this Zorro-esque hat?
Jess - the camera was one of those really old-fashoned ones where you had to peer under the cover, hence the cloak shadow.
that shadow of the man at the bottom is the scariest thing I have ever scene, and I have seen a priest masturbating in a confessional booth to a copy of a coldwater creek catalog.
This is such a complex and neat photo.
I wonder if the "horse" is really a mule. Several things make me thing it is other than the longer-than-normal ears (which also seem too short for a mule, but...).
Oh, the horse is real... you can see the motion blur on its front right hoof.
Actually, the National Gallery just curated a show about American snapshots. One thing they noted was that during the 20s, 30s and 40s, as amateur photography became more widespread, regular people frequently experimented with the properties of photography. A particularly common approach was to play with shadows/reflections/etc.
Cool photo!
Creepy.
The shadow at the bottom looks like he's about to take this guys soul. All the while, cowboy up there is having the time of his life.
Anybody notice That you can see the horse's and cowboy's shadows as well?
I think this was taken on a movie set,possibly a astill from an old Western film