Oddities and Turmoil: Kenneth Graves’s Pictures from the Bay Area, 1963-1974 – The New Yorker

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Oddities and Turmoil: Kenneth Graves’s Pictures from the Bay Area, 1963-1974

Graves captured, with humor and humanity, the world he came back to when he settled in San Francisco amid the tumult of the nineteen-sixties.

via The New Yorker: http://www.newyorker.com/culture/photo-booth/kenneth-graves-bay-area-1963-1974

The pictures here, made by Kenneth Graves as a young man in the Bay Area, show a world full of disjunction, of oddball events that seem to fall out of the sky and into his lap—or, more appropriately, into his field of vision. But they are more than amused observations