From the day
Perspective: The Street Photographer · Sound
The rhythmic *wacka-wacka* of a Pac-Man machine spills from the neon-lit arcade, competing with Diana Ross’s "Upside Down" blaring from a passerby’s silver boombox. I adjust my lens to capture a woman in a bodacious sequined blazer, her shoulder pads wide enough to scrape the doorframe as she rushes past a shop window advertising those new-fangled fax machines. The silver flash of her oversized earrings mirrors the cold glint of the street, where the scent of leaded exhaust mingles with the heavy hairspray of a dozen fresh perms. Even as the headline boxes shout about Mideast peace talks, the sidewalk is just a blur of Lycra, frantic tech, and the clicking shutters of my Leica.