This book of photographs is mostly about the urban landscape of streets, alleys, backlots, and passageways. Many of the scenes depicting drab mundanity often appeared to me as color abstractions. I sought to give order to a seeming chaos, to relate things unrelated except by accident. Looking back, I realize that even though most if not all the places I photographed more than forty years ago have now vanished, and even though only few people appear in them, they have become residues of human activity—a record of their indelible presence. The section on street photography re-introduces people and shows images from Nepal, Prague, Morocco, and the United States.