From the day
Perspective: The Street Photographer · Sight
The flash of my Leica catches a woman in a cinched wool coat pausing before a newsstand, her silhouette sharp against the charcoal haze of a New York winter. Headlines scream of sanctions and the distant thunder of the Peiping regime, threatening to put a kibosh on the fragile peace we’ve clung to since the last Great War. I duck into the diner for heat, watching the neon flicker over a sign advertising gas for $0.27 a gallon, a price that feels like a weight on every working man’s pocket. A child at the corner table ignores his eggs, mesmerized by the bright vinyl circles of his new Colorforms set while the world outside grows cold and uncertain.