"Two of a Kind"

Captured through a fish eye lens in 1974, this image stops you in your tracks. Two rotund, mirror-image figures stand side by side on an empty Main Street — bold yellow shirts, red pants, white collars, and little red hats with flags — rendered in vivid primary colors against the quiet backdrop of the park.The fish eye lens does something wonderful here. It bends the world ever so slightly, giving the scene a dreamy, surreal quality that feels less like a photograph and more like a memory you can't quite place. The street is empty. The colors are bold. The two figures stare back at you with the particular confidence of characters who know exactly who they are.Playful, strange, and utterly one of a kind — this is vintage park photography at its most wonderfully weird.