John Byrne Cooke
PHOTOGRAPHY
Image No. 79-C4-7: A Full Load
Bar Cross Ranch, summer 1979
The machine is a "sweep," converted from an old truck into a Rube Goldberg fork lift that can hoist twelve 75-lb bales of hay to the top of a stack in progress. The man at the controls is John Perry Barlow in blackface makeup composed of sweat, grease, and dust.
