This is the latch inside one of the stalls in the faculty men's room at The University of Texas School of Architecture in Austin, around 1969. I always had a camera with me in those days, documenting what I saw and trying to figure out what photography was all about. This is what I saw.
I'm still trying to figure out what it's about, and now there is the World Wide Web, and digital images everywhere: no silver halides, no latent images, no gelatin silver prints, no sense of anticipation while waiting for the film to be developed. It goes on, I know: instant gratification, no expense, etc.
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