26 February

Barn Doors And Hoops

by Jon Katz
Hoops
Hoops

On almost every old barn I photograph there’s a hoop. A farmer’s son explained to me that farms can be lonely and isolated, and when there is time between chores, brothers often shot  hops – the fathers were almost always too busy. I think of hoop dreams, of the imagination of a farmer’s kid working hard on a family farm, dreaming of big city basketball.

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