http://www.unphotographable.com/ en-us 2013-03-13T08:55:18-05:00 http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/Unphotographable/~3/4548zbk57nk/lampshade_cross.shtml This is a picture I did not take of a solitary lampshade tipped-over on the sidewalk of a street corner at dusk, blown like a tumbleweed and rolling off the curb, crossing the street directly in the crosswalk, at the exact time when the pedestrian walk signal was lit, a nonchalant lampshade crossing the street in front of a white pick-up truck patiently waiting to turn, the red bulb of its right turn-signal flashing. 2013-03-13T08:55:18-05:00 http://www.unphotographable.com/archives/2013/03/lampshade_cross.shtml http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/Unphotographable/~3/bWTFEN6fDVw/mlk_tshirt.shtml This is a picture I did not take of a man in Atlanta wearing a yellow Martin Luther King "I Have a Dream" t-shirt while selling drugs beneath the freeway, half a mile down the street from the house where Dr. King was born. 2012-06-03T20:27:34-05:00 http://www.unphotographable.com/archives/2012/06/mlk_tshirt.shtml http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/Unphotographable/~3/Nxpk-ptAlQg/school-bus-daddy.shtml This is a picture I did not take of a young woman standing at a bus stop beside a baby carriage, cradling the infant in her arms, waving its tiny forearm while saying "wave to daddy!" as a young man leans out a window of a yellow school bus to wave back at his new daughter and her mom while on his way to another day in high school. 2012-05-29T20:06:25-05:00 http://www.unphotographable.com/archives/2012/05/school-bus-daddy.shtml http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/Unphotographable/~3/8WK0eb9TRmA/mr_erfect.shtml This is a picture I did not take of a bedazzled maroon Ford Taurus with raised gold letters on the lid of the trunk spelling "MR. PERFECT"; one night on my way home I noticed the "P" had fallen-off (making Mr. Perfect less-than-perfect) and the next morning, as soon as the sun was up, I went to photograph Mr. Erfect's trunk, only to find the P had been promptly recovered and replaced. 2012-05-21T13:21:13-05:00 http://www.unphotographable.com/archives/2012/05/mr_erfect.shtml http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/Unphotographable/~3/71xrpeZgrs4/scene-of-the-hate-crime.shtml This is a picture I did not take of a satellite news truck, two police cars and a van from the Corrections Department idling at noon in Atlanta in front of JVC Grocery and Deli, where on February 4th, Brandon White was assaulted (the fracas videoed by a gang member and uploaded to the Web) and today, under the careful watch of police, prisoners in yellow vests picked-up trash from the vacant lot across the street while the TV crew's generator hummed, because when the media machine arrives to broadcast the story about how a neighborhood gang assaulted a young man because he's gay, you better have a clean vacant lot in the background. 2012-02-08T11:25:46-05:00 http://www.unphotographable.com/archives/2012/02/scene-of-the-hate-crime.shtml http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/Unphotographable/~3/5n8yOPW1wTI/tornado_warning.shtml This is a picture I did not take of a black hearse with tinted windows traveling at speed down a country road toward an oncoming storm as the morning sky darkened in advance of a tornado watch, and as the hearse sped through incoming rain toward the storm and the edge of Alabama, it was chased by an intrepid State trooper, lights blazing through the now downpour, police siren wailing as the wind of their chase passing twirled piles of wet leaves at the roadside into small spirals, eddies of their own. 2012-01-23T15:29:19-05:00 http://www.unphotographable.com/archives/2012/01/tornado_warning.shtml http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/Unphotographable/~3/Os9O1j-ZQiA/cheek_to_frozen.shtml This is a picture I did not take of a sleeping newborn wearing a blue winter hat and jumper, resting in a car seat nestled inside a shopping cart, which the baby's mother had filled with a rising crest of groceries so high it threatened to broach the sides of the car seat and fully engulf the baby, so much so, the newborn's feet had become partially buried by dueling boxes of Frosted Mini-Wheats, and while the baby slept and mom hung a left-turn out of Frozen Food heading for Milk & Dairy, a 4-pack of MorningStar Farms Griller's Vegan frozen veggie-burgers tipped from a stack alongside the car seat and gently slid into the right side of the baby's face, pink sleeping cheek to frozen veggie-burger 4-pack. 2011-12-12T15:11:22-05:00 http://www.unphotographable.com/archives/2011/12/cheek_to_frozen.shtml http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/Unphotographable/~3/b51NndC7paY/mccurry.shtml This is a picture I did not take McCurry.]]> 2011-12-07T21:29:57-05:00 http://www.unphotographable.com/archives/2011/12/mccurry.shtml http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/Unphotographable/~3/FRcvFFEZJMY/ask_me.shtml This is a picture I did not take of a man with a walking cane and cigar ambling toward me on the street, his t-shirt a faded yellow, bearing a worn message in 80s-style lettering saying "Ask Me About Century 21", and as he walked toward me, looking me in the eye, he passed a woman sitting on a bench right next to the sidewalk; her grey t-shirt said, "Ask Me If I Care..." 2011-07-25T11:46:43-05:00 http://www.unphotographable.com/archives/2011/07/ask_me.shtml http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/Unphotographable/~3/QEaj7Jl-IpI/firehouse_fire.shtml This is a picture I did not take of white smoke billowing from a firehouse, the garage doors flung-open, firemen standing in the smoky garage with their hands on their hips, looking at each other as if stunned by the fact that they're firemen standing in a firehouse filling with smoke while one of them reaches for the door handle of the fire engine, as if now's best idea would include driving the fire truck outside the garage to the sidewalk's hydrant where they could aim the truck's hose back at the firehouse; but that would be a different picture I didn't take, this one stayed stuck in the gauzy moment when the fireman reached for the truck's door while smoke exhaled out of the garage into the neighborhood, wrapping around the American flag on the firehouse lawn as a man in jean shorts walked by on the sidewalk carrying a bag of take-out BBQ, holding his nose as the smoke slowly engulfed him. 2011-06-14T08:03:39-05:00 http://www.unphotographable.com/archives/2011/06/firehouse_fire.shtml http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/Unphotographable/~3/Lig_fuz3nSY/a-woman-in-springtime-behind-a-pancake-house.shtml This is a picture I did not take of a woman in springtime behind a pancake house, sitting on the tailgate of a pick-up truck, her shoes off, toenails bright pink, swinging her heels while reading a book, her skirt a modest and smooth grey, her office clothes belying a lunch break in May spent reading in afternoon sunshine, in the naïve kind of sunshine that exists before rain, when a slow wind is the only giveaway that everything changes, as it curls from the West to cross the parking lot and gently push across her page. 2011-05-03T19:27:35-05:00 http://www.unphotographable.com/archives/2011/05/a-woman-in-springtime-behind-a-pancake-house.shtml http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/Unphotographable/~3/GBPtALqwHXU/obama_barbershop_sign.shtml This is a picture I did not take of a barber reaching through the horizontal window blinds of his shop in Atlanta, a few miles from the barbershop Walker Evans photographed in 1936 but similarly well-loved and worn, the barber's hand reaching through the blinds to remove a sun-faded window sign supporting Senator Obama, who was still a Senator in 2008 when the sign was printed and proudly posted in the shop's window, and Obama's campaign staff had been prescient enough to include specific outreach to barbershops in Atlanta, knowing the significance of these institutions within the African-American community, and back then, in 2008, I'd accompanied optimistic, bright-eyed campaign volunteers to barbershops in the city to photograph the distribution of posters and literature supporting Obama -- and here we are again, three years later, a sun-faded and curled sign being removed from the sill by the barber's slim fingers as I look on, not photographing. 2011-04-04T12:25:26-05:00 http://www.unphotographable.com/archives/2011/04/obama_barbershop_sign.shtml http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/Unphotographable/~3/jbTRTScvQWc/sunday-morning-sun-shield.shtml This is a picture I did not take of a woman waiting for a bus on a freezing morning in February, sun so bright in her face she shielded her eyes with a well-worn, black leather-bound Holy Bible. 2011-02-13T06:47:04-05:00 http://www.unphotographable.com/archives/2011/02/sunday-morning-sun-shield.shtml http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/Unphotographable/~3/3AOrCfGxQDk/4_hour_body.shtml This is a picture I did not take The 4-Hour Body.]]> 2011-01-09T11:06:25-05:00 http://www.unphotographable.com/archives/2011/01/4_hour_body.shtml http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/Unphotographable/~3/eSHmtJ9e0D8/burqa_discount_bin.shtml This is a picture I did not take of two women wearing black burqas, standing in the "10 for $10" discount bin area of Kroger Supermarket talking about how conditioner really stresses out their hair. 2010-12-13T12:50:42-05:00 http://www.unphotographable.com/archives/2010/12/burqa_discount_bin.shtml