From the day
Perspective: The Street Photographer · Tactile
The January wind bites through my wool coat as I frame a snapshot of a newsboy clutching a thick stack of papers detailing a banker’s plea for parole. Beneath his tattered newsie cap, the boy’s frozen fingers fumble with a deck of Rook cards, the stiff, waxy cardstock slick against his chapped skin. A nearby gramophone bellows "Alexander's Ragtime Band," those syncopated notes ringing out over the slush-covered cobblestones of the Chicago streets. I adjust my heavy wooden camera, feeling the cold brass knobs tarnish under my touch as the city pulses with the frantic energy of Irving Berlin’s latest hit.