The Polaroids of the Cowboy Poet - Washington Post

1/9 | New York, September 1976. “Don Fincke. He was a bona fide Bowery alcoholic. He said he used to be a high-ranking guy at Eastman Kodak but he left his wife and family because he couldn’t stop drinking.” (Chris Earnshaw and Joseph Mills)

"He kept thousands of Polaroids in shoeboxes, and no one knew they existed— until now."

By Dan Zak, Washington Post

Published on Jan. 13, 2016

Joe Mills has been in charge of photography at the Dumbarton Oaks museum for decades. On the side, he likes to rescue marginalized artists from obscurity, insanity, what have you. He considers that a solemn duty. Can you imagine what’s lost out there, he says, from the garages and attics of the world? Masterful outsider art that’s ignored or incinerated because the artist seemed nuts. Because the artist is nuts. Because the artist couldn’t frame the art properly for the world to see it. He knew that the proper organization of a scattered body of work could bring it out of oblivion.

Joe can see through chaos, because Joe once lived in chaos.

And so he believes that Chris Earnshaw is a great artist. One of Washington’s best photographers, in fact.

Read the Washington Post Article in full.

(Highly recommend this. - crafthaus editor.)

4/9 | Foggy Bottom, 1972. “She lived in a small brick house behind St. Paul’s Episcopal. The church bought her property and adjoining house and tore them down for extra lawn for their burial grounds.” (Chris Earnshaw and Joseph Mills)

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