From the day
Perspective: The Street Photographer · Sight
The July sun glares off the chrome of a parked Hudson, reflecting the sharp silhouettes of women in beaded silk and low-slung cloche hats. I adjust my lens as a newsie shouts about those automobile bandits escaping the law again, a story that sounds like pure baloney meant to sell papers to the nervous crowds. Nearby, a tinny gramophone spills the smooth, hushed melody of John Schonberger’s "Whispering" into the humid air, competing with the scent of gasoline and saltwater. I click the shutter just as a girl with a sharp bobbed haircut adjusts her T-strap heels, capturing a frame of this shimmering, lawless summer.