Brown's Corner Barber Shop

Date2010

MediumArchival inkjet print

DimensionsImage Size: 11 5/8 × 17 1/2 in. (29.5 × 44.5 cm) Paper Size: 13 × 19 in. (33 × 48.3 cm) Framed Size: 19 1/4 × 25 1/2 in. (48.9 × 64.8 cm)

Credit LineDC Commission on the Arts and Humanities Art Bank Collection

Object numberDCCAH2016.025.2

ClassificationsPhotographs

Locations

Child and Family Services Agency (200 I Street, SE)

DescriptionIn 2010 and 2011 I set out on foot with another photographer once a week to explore and photograph the neighborhoods of DC. I had tracked down Lely Constantinople and befriended her because I admired a similar documenting of Georgia Avenue she had done in the 1990s. Having lived in DC since I graduated high school in 1993, I was seeing the city transform and wanted to preserve in images some of the character of the city I had known and appreciated before all vestiges of those times were no longer visible. These images celebrate individuals that took time and effort to beautify their homes, businesses and communities. In “Brown’s Corner Barbershop”, we see a beautifully stylized and hand‐painted storefront window.