By the way, they're apparently looking at someone on the sidewalk. This was the dream cruise, so the street is lined with spectators. The clothes and perhaps even the makeup are costumes of a sort. I wear my Elvis wig and my gold sunglasses. My wife wears a beehive wig and butterfly sunglasses. Our kids duck so their friends won't recognize them.
Paul
On Nov 24, 2004, at 9:31 PM, frank theriault wrote:
On Wed, 24 Nov 2004 18:35:44 -0500, Paul Stenquist <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:On the Avenue, August 2004: http://www.photo.net/photodb/photo?photo_id=2907524&size=lg
There's something absolutely surreal about that photo! The bland, homogenized expressions, all of them looking the same way (at what?), the mother's over-made-up face, dad's shades and that horrible Hawaiian shirt, the American flags on the windshield. It looks like something from the 50's - and the car and the buildings in the background don't do anything hurt that last observation.
Oh yeah, there's the church there, too. It's an All-American photo - a time warp.
I just love it!!
cheers, frank
-- "Sharpness is a bourgeois concept." -Henri Cartier-Bresson
