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The Clock Cafe, US 11, Picayune, Mississippi
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 1978; print 1996
- Medium
- Chromogenic print
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- American
- Department
- Photographs
- Institution
- Getty Museum
- Object ID
- dbc69fd5-2513-468f-8ea3-4feaf071e01b
A long white truck stop building with a giant clock shaped sign above the entrance. "The Clock" is painted in red letters below the sign. The left side of the truck stop is a cafe with a white awning. The right side has a sign for AMOCO. A single car is parked on the asphalt in front of the cafe.
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