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Jim Dow. Hagan’s Dairy Bar, Bardstown, Kentucky, 1980. “My interest in photography centers on its capacity for exact description… . I use photography to try to record the manifestations of human ingenuity and spirit still remaining in our country’s everyday landscape.” —Jim Dow  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. 

Jim Dow. Hagan’s Dairy Bar, Bardstown, Kentucky, 1980.

“My interest in photography centers on its capacity for exact description… . I use photography to try to record the manifestations of human ingenuity and spirit still remaining in our country’s everyday landscape.” —Jim Dow 

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. 

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