Big Love Bus, originally uploaded by barst.

Ever since I first saw Robert Frank's "Streetcar, New Orleans" in his book, The Americans, I have photographed buses, hoping to create an image that was as meaningful to the world in which I live as Frank's image was in the mid fifties. No one has ever been able to even come close to Frank, but I keep trying.

It sure isn't up to Frank, but I was intrigued by this image of a CTA bus juxtaposed with am advertising display for HBO's current series about polygamists , "Big Love." Frank's image was about pre-civil rights era racial segregation in the South, mine is about a TV show. Hmm, maybe mine really does reflect our own world.