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Douglas County Fair (Midway Series), Alexandria, Minnesota
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David HusomAmerican Photographer · 1948–present
All works by this person →> In the spring of 1978... I went to photograph an art deco gas station I had always liked. I was shocked to find it was gone; in its place was a rather dull looking office building. The experience made me very aware of the role photography could play in documentation. > > --David Husom Although David Husom documents a variety of subjects, he is best known for his photographs of fairground archite
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- negative 1980; print 1996
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In this eerie night scene at a lackluster carnival, the gaping black doorway and the figures in the foreground--blurred as a result of the film's extended exposure time--create an atmosphere appropriate to the terrors promised by a Haunted House. Set against a black Minnesota night sky, the bright floodlights along the building's facade illuminate an almost abandoned attraction. To date, David Husom has created a large collection of such images of deserted county fairgrounds.
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