P Town's jarring juxtapositions

“Herring Cove Bathhouse Provincetown’’ (archival pigment print), by Jane Paradise, in her show “Classic Provincetown: Photographs of Provincetown and the Province Lands,’’ through Sept. 29, at Galatea Fine Art, Boston.

The gallery says:

“Provincetown is a jarring combination of natural beauty and thriving commercial enterprise. It is incongruous in its landscape and culture. Parts are so pristine that your eyes hurt with the raw beauty, but in summer it is sometimes so crazy with throngs of people that one can get lost and life can slip by quicker than sand in an hourglass. Two irreconcilable sides. Where the human and natural landscapes mingle to tell a unique story.’’

On Commercial Street in Provincetown.

In the Province Lands