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I like a lot of Stephen Shore's stuff, but this one doesn't do much for me:


It's entitled "Castine, Maine, 1974," and I'm pretty sure that I had seen it before, either in person somewhere or in a book.

It must've been in the dark reaches of my mind when I took this picture last month during the Japanese cherry blossom festival at the Brooklyn Botanical Garden:


They are obviously different pictures, though with a similar formal structure.

I don't think I can blame Shore for this next one, though it also involves a lobster:


I call it Self Portrait as Chinatown Lobster, August 2007. Maybe I was channeling Friedlander instead: