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This is a picture I did not take of a prostitute in front of four men on a street corner at dawn, asking them a question with her hands out, to which the men replied in unison, like a choreographed dance troupe, by pulling the lining of their pockets inside-out to show they had no money.

This “photograph” is from Unphotographable, a text account of pictures missed. It’s a beautiful thing.

04/12/07 by josh kamler

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4 Responses to “Word photographs”

Shane Says:
April 13th, 2007 at 6:41 pm
I’d rather see the actual picture…
josh kamler Says:
April 13th, 2007 at 11:04 pm
Yeah. We often hear designers say that. I think it’s a bias. In fact, just today we were discussing how very few people understand how hard it is to really write well.
cchs Says:
April 21st, 2007 at 6:55 am
Beautiful indeed. Chronology might be important here — there was an ad in CA (I think) about 5 years ago that used this exact same concept. I’ll try to find it…
josh kamler Says:
April 21st, 2007 at 10:21 am
cchs: I have a vague recollection of that too. It’d be interesting to see how it worked.

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