Exhibitions: Click! A Crowd-Curated Exhibition

Dave Sanders. Clover Barbershop, 2006. All rights reserved

Artist Statement

Clover Barbershop in Park Slope where Ercole Riccardelli has been cutting hair for almost 50 years.

19 Comments

If he's been cutting hair for over 50 years in this location and your photo only shows his shop (no surrounding area for context) then doesn't this become the "un-changing face of Brooklyn"?

So it's not really the *changing* face of Brooklyn, then, is it? I mean, if he's been there 50 years and all.

Very Sweet

great catch!

Trite

Great photo - exposure composition and contrast all good & would have been hard to get. No sign of change but effectly describes detail from a dying culture

Who could say anything more? Sublime.

I like the chotzkys and fake plant in the window...very old school Brooklyn!

Unless you document, nobody will know it is important to you and to others.

This seems to represent a past history, not change.

Image, theme and result are very good, valuing past, preservation and present.

a menagerie salon of living history

great window probably the most honest representation of Brooklyn I have seen in this series

loved the whole image. epitomy of the street window scene

I like the somewhat worried, serious expression caught in this photo. Mr. Riccardelli seems to ponder his future and that of his beloved shop. He's also wondering where the customers are.

He's watching Brooklyn change right before his very eyes.

Like the fact that this shot captures a once dynamic neighborhood barber shop in its death throes. The old man and the faded toys, abandoned and left behind. That is change, and the price of change. — Posted by Freddy

In cities all over Europe I've seen these elderly men. But remember how they treated you when you were a frightened child and when they were flirting with your mum ad the same time. — Posted by ines van dijk

ERCOLE seems to be looking out his window watching by-gone days of Brooklyn drift past him. He doesn't seem to like the change. — Posted by anonymous