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Border Beauties

bruce101 — Thu, 11 Mar 2010 03:19:33 +0000

February 13, 2010, the day before the Day of San Valentin – El Paso, Texas Photographs by Bruce Berman Pipo’s Hair Salon and School held a beauty competition and the best of the best turned out to coif, spray, paint and shape the “models,” in a competition that determined who was the most beautiful and who was [...]

El Paso Dreamin’

bruce101 — Mon, 22 Feb 2010 20:29:57 +0000

Town for sale, El Paso – Feb. 2010 From the movie The Border: Marcy (Valerie Perrine) : (Showing her Border Patrol husband brochures about El Paso, trying to talk him into moving there, at their breakfast table, in Los Angeles) Honey sometimes you gotta dream. Charlie Smith (Jack Nicholson) : (Pausing, furrowing his now signature brow) I never [...]

El Dia de San Valentin

bruce101 — Sun, 14 Feb 2010 18:49:45 +0000

La “MC,” Lidia, San Valentin Beauty Show El Paso – Feb. 13, 2010 El Dia de San Valentin/El Paso, Texas Candy? Flowers? Lingerie? Furgidaboutit! Beauty! Big day on the border. Everywhere now. Billions in tooth decay. Billions in flowers grown in eco-destroying third world corporate gardens. Bah humbug (or whatever malapropism you say on Valentin’s Day)! At Pipo’s Hair and Beauty Academy, the [...]

Father, Son, Babe

bruce101 — Sun, 07 Feb 2010 08:04:44 +0000

Father, Son, Babe – El Paso, August 2009 Share and Enjoy:

The ‘hood Is Still Good

bruce101 — Wed, 06 Jan 2010 15:24:24 +0000

Copia Street, Jan. 4, 2010 Four blocks to the bridge, to the border. Lots of foot traffic. It comes and it goes, north then south. The neighborhood is changing as the Medical Center becomes a reality, but it’s going to be hard to erase what the neighborhood is. This mural, sneaked in on the side of a little building [...]

Turtle In New Mexico

bruce101 — Sat, 02 Jan 2010 16:51:36 +0000

Turtle/New Year’s Eve 2009, New Mexico Las Cruces New Mexico on New Year’s Eve 2009. Turtle, 17, born and raised in this southern New Mexico town. Apache. Defiant and alive. It was as good as Times Square. Better. 2010 Resolutions? Nah. Just keep looking. Share and Enjoy:

Black Cross and Anarchy

bruce101 — Thu, 31 Dec 2009 05:12:08 +0000

5:10pm – December 30, 2009 Last block of America. Or is it the first? Fifth Street and El Paso Street, El Paso, Texas. This used to be happy street. It’s still a busy street. It’s the street where the downtown bridge from Juarez exits or, conversely, it is the street where you leave the United States and enter [...]

“WOKIKSUYE CANKPE OPI” (“Remember Wounded Knee”)

bruce101 — Tue, 29 Dec 2009 06:05:05 +0000

Marvin, a Pima Indian from Arizona, AIM takeover of BIA offices, Chicago, Christmas Eve 1970 photograph by Bruce Berman ©2009 Dec. 29, 2009 / Wounded Knee Day This is Wounded Knee Day. It calls for remembrance. In the 120 year aftermath, the victims of Wounded Knee have still not received justice, let alone, widespread acknowledgment of the murders of nearly [...]

Centro El Paso/Christmas

bruce101 — Mon, 21 Dec 2009 18:00:22 +0000

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Christmas en El Centro

bruce101 — Mon, 21 Dec 2009 15:47:10 +0000

Christmas weirdness, El Paso, Texas – December 20, 2009 Share and Enjoy:

Myths, Ghosts, And, This Window

bruce101 — Sun, 20 Dec 2009 05:52:31 +0000

Ghost View south, Dec. 19, 2009 Three of the last four posts have involved this window. The view to the south. One block to Alameda Street, two more down Stevens and, voila, you’re at the bridge, then you’re in Juarez, then if you keep going you’re on the carretera to Ciudad Chihuahua, then Torreon, then Puebla [...]

My Window and Mi Compañeros a Sur: Season’s Greetings!

bruce101 — Fri, 18 Dec 2009 18:50:20 +0000

Guadalupe #41, El Paso – Dec. 18, 2009 This third floor window looks out onto the Cordova Bridge to Juarez, three blocks to the south. It’s the Season. Guadalupe, I will light you every night -and a string of Christmas lights too- for the rest of the holiday. If anyone in Juarez sees this, please wave [...]