From the day
Perspective: The Street Photographer · Sight
The flash powder flares over a sidewalk choked with heavy wool frock coats and the sharp, stiff silhouettes of Gibson Girl hats. Under the yellow haze of the gaslights, a newsie screams about Richard Davis’s smashed auto, his ink-stained fingers trembling as he hawks the morning scandal near a shop window. Inside that glass, a group of well-to-do gentlemen are hunched over a board of Land’s Lord, their velvet sleeves brushing against the painted squares of property and paper money. Gadzooks, the sheer arrogance of those landlords makes me want to drop my bellows camera right in the gutter.