From the day
Perspective: The Street Photographer · Sound
The heavy humidity of August clings to the starch of my collar as I adjust the tripod, watching a boy in knickerbockers sprint past with a brand new Meccano set tucked under his arm. The street is a cacophony of iron hooves on cobblestone and the distant, mechanical wheeze of a horse-drawn vacuum cleaner sucking the dust from a shopkeeper’s rug. It is a capital afternoon for a portrait, provided the light holds and the crowd keeps still. I catch the whistle of "Blaze Away" from a passing dandy, just as a fellow enthusiast starts shouting about a new transatlantic radio signal that’s set to turn the whole world into a neighborhood.