Man Resting on Carport Lounge Chair, Florida Ranch House No. 5480, 1950s

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Man Resting on Carport Lounge Chair, Florida Ranch House No. 5480, 1950s — Archive & Atlas

Unattributed 1953–1959

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A man is stretched out on a tubular aluminum chaise longue on the covered front porch of a stucco ranch house numbered 5480, in what the jalousie-louvered door, terra-cotta tile step, and decorative wrought-iron scrollwork place squarely in postwar Florida — the kind of modest, sun-bleached suburb that developers pressed out of the flatlands by the thousands to receive the great migration of northerners who had decided that air conditioning and citrus were sufficient substitutes for everything they had left behind. The house is white, one-story, and without any architectural ambition beyond the wrought-iron curlicues that the era insisted upon as proof of refinement. Two folding lawn chairs sit empty beside him, which suggests either that guests were expected and have not arrived or that guests came, tired of watching a man sleep, and left. The 1950s had a serious and largely unexamined belief that lying in the shade on a weekend afternoon constituted leisure, distinct from idleness, and that this distinction mattered. He has his hands behind his head and his ankles crossed, the universal posture of a man who has decided that everything requiring his attention can wait until Monday, a decision Florida has always made unusually easy to reach.

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