From the day
Perspective: The Street Photographer · Tactile
The morning air is a thick soup of coal smoke and damp wool, but through my viewfinder, everything looks capital. I focus on a gentleman in a stiff celluloid collar as he lingers outside a shop window, his gloved fingers tracing the polished mahogany cabinet of a new Victrola Phonograph while a grainy melody drifts from the horn. A newsboy elbows past him, the rough newsprint of the morning edition smudging his woolen cap as he shouts of volcanic ash falling in the islands. I ignore the grim headlines, preferring to capture the flicker of a young girl’s fingers as she snaps down a winning card in a game of Rook on a nearby stoop.