The Country of Windmills

Bruce Davidson: photograph from 1959
(NY Times)

America, the big country of windmills for crazy dreamers. The Statue of Liberty is somewhere in distance: Fata Morgana.

(Actually these are rooftop aerials; does it make a difference?)

There is an Italian immigrant story: we were told that in America all roads were paved with gold; we came here to discover three things: that the roads were not paved with gold, that they were not paved at all, and that we were expected to pave them.

(Capturing the City)