Hurricane Carol

Farber is known for his photography of early American gravestones in cemeteries throughout New England. He was also a patron of the arts and ecological causes. In his nature photography, he used a soft focus to try to capture the essence of the subject. Here he photographs Hurricane Carol, which hit New England in 1954. Damages amounted to nearly half a billion dollars, making Carol the costliest hurricane to ever hit America at the time. Farber’s slightly blurry photograph captures the motion and chaos of the event, reminding us that he experienced it firsthand.