A Dog Without Papers
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8 min readJan 2, 2020
The Southeast Texas town where I was raised was once the subject of a photography book titled Rough Beauty. It was kitsch masquerading as high art, replete with black-and-white photos of BBQ festival queens, Mormon missionaries, and tattooed men posing shirtless in front of trailers. The photographer was a former Clinton administration press officer who thought he’d try his hand at something more artsy, so he set about documenting our quaint folkways.
