#the shoemaker

[thestonecuttersguild]

The Shoemaker, Gripenhem. 2016

[sydney-carton-of-sour-milk]

Book the First, Chapter Six: The Shoemaker

“The window [was] of dormer shape...one half of this door was fast closed, and the other was opened but a very little way. Such a scanty portion of light was admitted through these means, that it was difficult, on first coming in, to see anything....Yet...with his back towards the door, and his face towards the window where the keeper of the wine-shop stood looking at him, a white-haired man sat on a low bench, stooping forward and very busy, making shoes*."

[poetsonart]

Jacob Lawrence, The Shoemaker (1945) // Langston Hughes, “Harlem” (1951)

[arinewman7]

The Shoemaker by Jacob Lawrence

[marcoralife]

Alvaro Arce

[piggyolson]

Mike broke the small glass pane next to the doorknob and opened the door. Only the Millers' dog was home. Joe was disappointed: the dog was a male, but even if it had been a female, canine vaginal fluid does not have the magical medicating properties that Joe believed human vaginal fluid had and could not be used on Bonnie's sores.

i no longer have any idea what i'm reading. no clue. nope. 

[scheisse-minnelli-blog-blog]

Made in Brooklyn: The Shoemaker

Frank Catalfumo is a 91 year old shoemaker and repairer in Bensonhurst, Brooklyn. He first opened the doors to F&C Shoes in 1945 and continues to work five days a week alongside his son Michael. If you're ever in the area, make sure to stop by the shop and listen to one of Frank's amazing stories about life in Brooklyn back in the day.

View the photo gallery here: dustincohen.com/STORIES/THE-SHOEMAKER/thumbs/

Directed by Dustin Cohen, Filmed by Dustin Cohen and Michael Hurley, Edited by Bill Kemmler, Color Grading by Simon Biswas.

Oh, I love old people. They're so interesting.