Work Environment

Snapshots of people have a force and believability beyond formalized photography. There is something indirect in their in-completeness, they carry authenticity

Bruce Anthony (Tony) King
"Fisherman", 1983. Man on a boat leaning over a crate filled with fish.
"Apple Hands", 1972. Hands reaching into a wood crate of apples from an orchard in Berlin, Massachusetts.
"Mudflat Bounty", 1968. Worm digger using a worm rake in the sand.
"Spag", 1972. Anthony "Spag" Borgatti sitting back in his chair in his office, talking on the phone with one foot up on his desk.
"Harold Hugo", 1974. Harold Hugo, widely regarded as America's most important printer of illustrated books, sitting as his desk stacked with papers and turning a page in a book.
"Leonard", date unknown. Man sitting outdoors among ferns and other greenery.
"Before Computers", 1968. Woman looking through a drawer from the card catalog at the Harvard Library, behind her is a large wood card catalog cabinet.
"Old Joe, Charcoal Worker", 1970. Man sitting on a stack of logs.
"Lawyer and Accountant", 1984. Two men working together at a desk filled with papers.
"Eloise's Garden", 1984. Mother of Bruce "Tony" King in a garden, surrounded by plants.
"Tea Man", 1969. An outside "tea man" appears every morning at the Worcester Control plant in England.
"Rocky", date unknown. Man in a workshop, standing in front of a tall wood carving.
"In the Tradition", 1984. Person painting on a large canvas propped on an easel on a beach in Kennebunkport, Maine.

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