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Poolroom at Nora's Midway Truck Stop, US 43, Grove Hill, Alabama
Creator
Jim DowAmerican Photographer · 1942–present
All works by this person →> 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.
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- negative 1979; print 1996
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- Chromogenic print
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A dingy, graffiti-laced room in Nora's Midway Truck stop suggests a scattered, rag-tag clientele stopping occasionally to pick up a game, perhaps to improve their transient fortunes with a confident bet. Pool cues stand idle on either side of the meager window, awaiting players to rescue them from inertia. Three orange plastic chairs and the worn green felt on the pool table punctuate the dirty brown room like fragmented bursts of light and contribute contrasting colors to the image. Years of wear and grime have settled on every surface. Jim Dow evocatively captured the gritty detail of a brief respite offered up to travelers passing through.
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