George Forss is steaming along on his new book “The Way We Were,” funded  by his Kickstarter project of the same name. He has sorted through his photographs, printed more than 70 of them and is beginning to record the dates, times and exposures. I’m proud to be writing the introduction to the book. George showed me this 1985 print, he calls it “Carriage Ride,” it is one of his famous double exposures but it captures some of the history, timelessness and romance of the New York City Carriage Horses, now the subject of a furious and sustained effort by the mayor of New York and some animal rights groups to ban the horses from the city.

I was pleased to see George’s own interpretation of a New York carriage ride, no one at the time or for more than a century before seemed to think the horses were abused, mistreated, or unsuitable for New York. The city’s streets were much more congested and chaotic before than they are now. I have to ask  him about the two faces hovering above the carriage, I suspect they were mannequins in a department store window. I think the photo is about classiness.