From the day
Perspective: The Street Photographer · Sound
The damp chill of November clings to the wool coats of the suffragettes marching past my lens, their chants of "votes for women" nearly drowned out by the metallic screech of a passing streetcar. I duck into a shop doorway to swap my plates, catching a glimpse of a gleaming new display of Pyrex Glass—hard to believe a casserole dish is as tough as a locomotive headlight. Across the street, a crackling chorus of "I Didn't Raise My Boy to Be a Soldier" blares from a phonograph, competing with the frantic buzz about a transcontinental telephone call reaching all the way to the coast. Even with sonar tech now hunting shadows beneath the sea, I’m just trying to capture the grit of this sidewalk before the light fails.