This was one of Dorothea [Lange's] favorite pictures. I was walking with my Graflex in Chinatown. Those were the days when the New York Garbage Can School was in vogue, so I thought to myself, "Okay, I'll do a real garbage can!" I did it as a joke. Dorothea thought it was absolutely marvelous."(Roger Sturtevant, interview with Joyce Minick, transcribed in catalog sheets, c. 1977)
Concepts:
flower; garbage can; dahlia; curb; street
Places:
Chinatown, San Francisco
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