Three Things: The Edition From Behind

We’ve all had those moments in our lives, sitting on the bus behind someone, or walking down the street before passing someone in front of you, or waiting in line at the post office: while staring at the back of someone’s head, one can’t help but wonder about their story, and what they’re thinking about at that moment.

This week, let’s study the backs of strangers’ heads and write about them. Too creepy? Oh, alright, here are three for you to work from without having to follow anyone around.

Lee Friedlander, Shadow – New York City, 1966. Photograph. San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, San Francisco.

René Magritte, La reproduction interdite (Not to be Reproduced), 1937. Oil on canvas. Museum Boijmans van Beuningen, Rotterdam. 

Kay Sage, Le Passage, 1956. Oil on canvas. Private collection.