Legible Light

RIP James Gurley

Posted in Photos by William Poole on January 13, 2010

The sign mourns the death of James Gurley, a member of the rock band Big Brother and the Holding Company and “instrumental in the formation of the Hippie counter culture that began here in the Haight-Ashbury.”  The Haight is one of the closest neighborhoods to my home.  I was photographing the sign when this gentleman stopped to light his cigarette, and I thought it looked like a picture.

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