before the blue door

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This one's from directly across the street from the previous entry. Obviously too far away to see anything at all, other than that it's a "pitcher book." I'm still trying to figure out the range, how close I need to be to really see what's going on in the book's picture and still have a "meaningful" surrounding that I can select and capture.

As a gauge, Shore has three photos in Uncommon Places that are overtly of pictures, either painted or photographed. What is most interesting about them to me is the relative distances between the surfaces of the pictures he is photographing and the surfaces on which these pictures "hang." One is a billboard in a spectacular natural landscape. Another is a painting of a northern Italian landscape hanging on a plain white concrete block wall. The third is a painted mountain landscape hanging on a wallpaper covered surface printed with images of Native American artifacts. The latter is more interesting for the wallpaper the picture hangs on, so the image more or less pushes the viewer outside the frame. The Italian landscape is a deep well that you fall immediately into, even while still holding onto the block wall around it. And the billboard with it's blanked out text is also a surface that pushes the eye outside it's frame, to have you pay more attention to the natural surroundings in which the billboard has been placed.