Photojournal: Cape May Beaches, 1997

Photographs by James Irwin

A set of photographs taken one morning at the southernmost tip of New Jersey. The massive, clumsy detritus of industrial-age civilization -- the squat pillars, the sunken concrete ship, the fortress slipping into the ocean -- look foolish, like they are embarrassed to be there, ashamed of their own fragility. This would have some poignancy, except that they also remind me of the last scene in Planet of the Apes.
Start the journal wherever you like. Just click on a thumbnail. -- James Irwin

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All photographs Copyright © 1997, 1998 by James Irwin