Tilted Wheel, Limestone Mill, Bedford, Indiana fine black and white print from infrared negative
Tilted Wheel
Limestone Mill,
Southern Indiana
Enlargement from infrared negative
Image 0019

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"...limestone mills fascinate me, there I find the two ingredients that attract me to black and white photography: light and imagination; mixed with powerful forms, startling textures, huge bizarre spaces, detached human figures as well as suggestions of people recently departed. Everything is coated with a fine layer of limestone dust which emphasizes these features..."

Almost all of Southern Indiana sits on a bedrock of solid limestone. Quarrying and cutting this bedrock has been the main industry in this region for over one hundred years.