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| Photo: © Bruce Haley |
I reviewed Home Fires, Volume 1: The Past by Bruce Haley a year ago; recently he sent me Volume 2: The Present, and in full disclosure, Mr. Haley was kind enough to gift me both books which in and of themselves make for quite a collection. Vol. 2 is both a more massive undertaking, and the more accessible of the two as it takes a more photojournalistic approach. This second effort contains: people, interiors and of course, landscapes- something for everyone in his now signature, near monochromatic color scheme. While I loved the first volume as a whole for its desolation and outright bleakness, the latest volume has many individual shots of note to both ponder and appreciate.
There is one shot taken from behind of cowboys herding cattle, as timeless a shot as possibly imagined; other than being an in camera color image, the only other clue that exposes its modern day origins is the slightest contrail just barely visible, and so seemingly, impossibly high and beyond reach in the vast Western sky. As Mr. Haley imparts, "they (the photographs) are simply a reflection of what I find interesting," and very much part of an America that most no longer think of as The Present.
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