From the day
Perspective: The Street Photographer · Sound
The rhythmic clatter of horse-drawn carts competes with the static hum of those new gasoline engines, a noisy symphony that keeps me checking my focus. I step past a newsstand where the latest headlines about Count Czaky making good on a job hunt flutter in the breeze, while a nearby shopkeeper grumbles about paying **$0.15** a gallon just to keep his delivery truck humming. A young woman in a high-collared linen blouse pauses to adjust her Raggedy Ann doll under one arm, her eyes fixed on a theater poster for the latest movies. The scene is absolutely over the top with visual drama, perfectly framed against the grit of the sidewalk as the mournful tune of Al Piantadosi’s anti-war ballad drifts out from a cracked second-story window.