From the day
Perspective: The Street Photographer · Sight
The flash powder stings my eyes as I capture a copper-buttoned veteran scowling at the newsboy’s headline; they’re calling heroes slackers today, and the Bronx is ready to boil over. Behind him, a dapper fella in a pinstripe suit checks his reflection in a storefront window featuring the latest medical marvel, insulin, which some say is the cat's pajamas for the sickly. I dodge a child clutching a limp Raggedy Andy, my lens catching the flicker of a movie poster featuring those strange mechanical "robots" that have everyone talking about the future. It's a mad world where a man can be branded a deserter by a printing press or have his heart’s truth teased out by a newfangled polygraph machine.