Photo Essay :: Pete Seeger at Home

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by Michael Bowman

posted Feb 08, 2008

Photographer Michael Bowman took these pictures in December, 2007, at Pete Seeger's home in Beacon, New York, overlooking the Hudson River.

“If there’s a world here in a hundred years, it’s going to be saved by tens of millions of little things. The powers-that-be can break up any big thing they want. They can corrupt it or co-opt it from the inside, or they can attack it from the outside. But what are they going to do about 10 million little things? They break up two of them, and three more like them spring up!”
Pete Seeger

Click on the thumbnails below to see our Pete Seeger photo-essay.

Thumbnail image. Photo by Michael Bowman for YES! Magazine

:: INTERVIEW:		Read Sarah van Gelder’s exclusive interview with Pete.
:: VIDEO:		Watch an excerpt from our interview.
:: DOCUMENTARY:		Pete Seeger: The Power of Song Read our review and see the trailer

Photographer Michael Bowman is a historian by education, which he says explains his fascination with old buildings, cars and technology. He also takes extraordinary photographs of graveyards.

His work can be seen at www.desolateplaces.com.
His flickr photo postings go under the moniker of DuffSuds.

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