From the day
Perspective: The Street Photographer · Sound
The mechanical click of my Graflex cuts through the brassy chorus of "Put On Your Old Grey Bonnet" drifting from a nearby phonograph shop. I watch a gentleman in a stiff wool overcoat pause at the filling station, grumbling as he fishes out a thin silver dime for a gallon of gas, his breath hitching in the crisp autumn air. It is a bully afternoon for a crisp exposure, captured just as the newsboys start shouting about the Pulitzer scandal. Between the frantic clatter of carriage wheels and the new metallic hum of a motorcar, the city feels like it’s racing Peary to the Pole.