crit photo essay

7/22/2019 Crit Photo Essay

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Though Bozeman is becoming one

of the best towns to live in in the

country, it still survives with

remnants of its past. They flickerpast the eye, staying undecidedly

below a conscious detection.

Bozemans Forgotten Past

By: Cavin Losett


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Mmmm

Hiding behind history and an unbeknownst ignorance, the past, of what

used to be a small mountain town, speaks in wordsyet no voice but that

given to it by an author who can only surmise. Flour that used to package in

100 lb bags off of Wallace and Peach St. now only survives with thoughtfully

forgotten murals painted high above todays line of sight. It adds a charm,some say. However, what is now a remote location in the eastern district of

Bozemans downtown residential area might used to have been a hub in the

towns earlier days.

What used to support a hustle of

trade and commerce now sits

delinquent, windowssorrowfully shattered tears

speak of better yesterdays. All

the while dilapidated paint peels

layers of sunshine that onceshone proudly.


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Forgotten spokes of industry

leave a rusting sentimentality

of age and ageless diffidence.

Words that were so carefully

sprawled upon blank

templates to inform, to catch

the eye, to draw in commerce,

remainbut are gone.

What used to be staples

among the community that

was more comprised of

ranchers and farmers, now

host pictorial journeys to the

past.

The punks of today, taggers

and graffiti artists now onlyemulate the evidence of

previous generations

tendencies to use the building

of their business as their

billboards, slapping paint on

it as wistfully as Picasso.


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