The image depicts a found still life of precious things that were arranged and composed by a street person. br All four inexpensive liquor bottles and paper cup are empty. It's an aftermath portrait of a homeless person getting a cheap high. The inclusion of a pretty doll among the booze bottles hints at a quest for happiness under the harshest conditions. In the late, 1960's the Bowery was New York's skid row with hundreds of homeless people living and drinking on the streets, in the alleyways and in foyers of walkups. br Mitchell Funk is a "Color Photographer. On the heels of decades of Black and White street photography, Funk decided to take a different course and shoot street scenes in color where color itself was always at least a co-subject. Today in 2022 he still shoots today with the same enthusiasm as he did 53 years ago. However, it's much harder to find interesting things to shoot in todays prefabricated world of soulless franchise architecture. br Mitchell Funk is a pioneer of " Color Photography" In 1970 he participated in one the first " Color Photography" shows at a major museum. Brooklyn Museum, show "Images en Couleur" . 1971 Included he was included in the visionary book "Frontiers of Photography" Time Life. Color ! American Photography Transformed. Amon Carter Museum . He has had more than 50 Photography Magazine Covers and has had covers on Newsweek and Life Magazine among others.