LISTEN ‘The Last Confederate Widow’ of 1960s Cruising (opens in new tab)

That sense of mystery is something that a lot of my better photographs have, and The Ramble at the time exuded a kind of mysterious… 19th century romanticism of the English garden that gave you that kind of experience. I used it as a kind of leitmotif when I was creating the photos, a kind of archetypical pattern of these dark shadows, these endless pathways, the late autumnal feeling of people doing these perambulations—almost a metaphor for the human condition, in a way.