From the day
Perspective: The Street Photographer · Sound
The klaxon of a passing motorcar cuts through the morning fog, competing with a chorus of newsies screaming about Admiral Togo’s triumph at Tsushima. I pause by the filling station, watching a dandy check his pocket watch with a "gadzooks" while grumbling at the pump; ten cents for a gallon of gas is getting to be a robbery, even for a man in a Merry Oldsmobile. With my camera steady, I capture the grit of a laborer’s heavy wool coat against the shimmering brass of a new storefront. The world is accelerating at a dizzying pace—I even heard a clerk at the patent office whispering that "E=mc2" might change our very understanding of the light I’m chasing.