Curious Placements

Coming across an ordinary object in anunexpected location gives pause for thought.

Why up there? To make a statement about something.

Who put it there? The museum display designers.

In photographing such exhibits, or even happenstance objects out on the street, enigma can be heightened by having people cross at the right moment.

In this case the people also form the bottom vertices making a triangular composition.

Canon 5D II, 17-40mm, f4, 1/40 sec, NY: MoMA, 090709

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