Playboy #2

In this striking 1968 issue of Playboy, Howard Shoemaker crafts a tense, minimalist narrative in which a man sits in a chair at a railroad crossing, a noose around his neck, tethered to the lowered guard arm. As he waits for the train to pass and the arm to rise, the quiet dread of the moment hangs in the air—no dialogue, no explanation, just a single, gripping image of anticipation and peril.