Nertz!

Nuts! he might say, if the Pioneer Food Store happened to be all out of his favorite rolling paper. It's 12:45 in the universe. From Kepes/Lynch.

Harvard Bridge, pre-Smoot

The single-most unusual aspect of this shot is its revealing of a view that has changed very little in over 50 years. I walk the same walk. From Kepes/Lynch.

Watch yer parking meters

Don't wanna be a bum, ya better chew gum. Taste the sun on the metal. Nickels only. From Kepes/Lynch.

Tree + reader

Today's Kepes/Lynch image looks like late afternoon; the reader is backlit: a skillful exposure, and cunningly composed in space and rectangle to convey solitude. It's not a book he holds. Is it a newspaper? A racing form? A man's magazine, like Argosy? Or True?

Dead girls are easy

My amour fou.

Today's selection from The Kepes/Lynch Photograph Collection is composed within an inch of its life, but a row of fluorescents visible through the window hints of interior doings on that bright mid-morning, 10:45 AM, March 14, 1956.

Corns medicine

A dangling reminder/remainder of slow clapboard days in Cambridge, Mass. Corns Medicine a buck a bottle when you pick up the laundry. From The Kepes/Lynch Photograph Collection.