Self-taught photographer Mike Brodie rode the rails of America, shooting fellow box car hoppers and traveling youths with a Polaroid SX-70. Nicknamed, The Polaroid Kidd, over the course of three years, the accidental photojournalist captured a segment of American population that lives on the fringes of society whose only necessary comforts are a bonfire, a knife to defend against vermin, and no homestead anchors, save for the occasional communal squat. Not just an artifact of a particular kind of freedom, it's a document of human bonds, movement itself, and the places you go when you let go.
A hobo is a migratory worker or homeless vagabond, often penniless. The term originated in the Western, probably Northwestern, United States during the last decade of the 19th century. Unlike tramps, who work only when they are forced to, and bums, who do not work at all, hobos are workers who wander.
The etymology of the term hippie is from hipster, and was initially used to describe beatniks who had moved into New York City's Greenwich Village, San Francisco's Haight-Ashbury district, and similar urban areas. Both the words hip and hep came from black American culture and denote awareness. To say I'm hip to the situation means I am aware of the situation. Thus the word hippie means one who is aware.
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