Hobos are a particular kind of vagabonds usually associated with the American 'Great Depression' of the '30s. In those times a growing number of people, having lost their job, wandered in search of work hopping on freight trains and living near lonely railroad tracks in pieced-together camps ('jungles'). At the end of the '50s, Jack Kerouac described these bums in On the Road and other books and the post-Vietnam era produced its own surge of wandering travellers as veterans, young dropouts and drug culture casualties sought freedom along the American rails. Today the mantle has been passed (however reluctantly) to squatters and punks who started arriving on the scene in the early '90s.
These photos of modern hobos are at the same time dramatic, romantic, moving...Seeing them one wonders what will happen to these 'rebels without a cause' when they'll be older and ever more damaged by this extreme form of street life....
1 comment:
everything you just said is BS. theres a big difference between hobos and bum. think you need to do more research before you use language with so much weight behind it lest you get too damaged by your extreme lifestyle...
ps all rebels have a cause, rebellion. get it? how about 'artist without a point' how does that feel a-hole
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