From the day
Perspective: The Street Photographer · Sight
Rain slicks the pavement, reflecting the dizzying amber glow of the marquee where a dapper gent hums "Singin' in the Rain" while adjusting his new mass-produced sunglasses against the glare. I catch a flash of a "Sheba" in a cloche hat leaning against a shiny coupe; the driver is fiddling with a dial, trying to coax a melody out of a new-fangled car radio. That story about Edison’s old laboratory in the papers is pure applesauce compared to the modern hum of these streets, where thick coaxial cable snakes behind the scenes to power this electric fever. I snap the shutter just as a boy flickers past, his Duncan Yo-Yo spinning a blur of red against the autumn grit.