From the day
Perspective: The Street Photographer · Sight
The flash powder stings my eyes as I capture a copper-buttoned doughboy leaning against a newsstand, his wool uniform soaked in the humid June sun. He’s grinning wide at the morning's lead story, *LIL' LYMAN UPHOLDS HONOR OF U.S. ARMY; Drives Out Long Hit in Ninth, Defeating Navy in Red-Hot Finish at West Point.* Young ladies in high-collared lace and wide-brimmed hats flutter past, whispering about the new moving pictures playing at the nickelodeon. I adjust my tripod, framing a shot of a child clutching a box of Erector Set metal, the sharp silhouette of the city’s rising steel reflecting in her wide, curious eyes.