Mops and Brooms - 01

Barry Solow

Outside a shop on Broadway, between 207th and 211th, in Inwood (the very top of Manhattan). When I took the picture the shop owner came out and looked at me suspiciously. "It's for a photographic project," I told her. "I'm taking pictures of collections." "This ain't a collection," she said, with an unfriendly edge in her voice. "It can be a collection of anything...shoes, rocks, even mops!" I told her. She glared at me and I thought it best to walk away. Hurriedly.