Clown Town #59

A note from photographer Slate Vernick about this image: "Occasionally local vendor fairs would draw tourists from their usual haunts along Restaurant Row. There, vendors would sell toys, juggling balls and pins, and other souvenirs to take home from 'Clown Town.'" ----- This portrait is an excerpt from the photographic archives of beloved photographer Slate Vernick. From 2082-2084, Slate photographed the residents of Canaryville, a coastal community known to outsiders as "Clown Town." For almost two decades, the citizens of Canaryville had widely embraced the practice of dressing up as clowns each day. What started as a unifying form of anti-war protest became a nearly religious cultur...View all