Hearing voices again, Frank? Yes, in a way it is photography at its best. The series is especially interesting for Juan and me, and perhaps some others here, as the photos were taken where we sometimes make photos. I fact, after looking closely at the pics and reading the accompanying text, it's just about where I took my first shots with my very first Pentax, a Spotmatic that I purchased at a pawn shop just a couple of blocks away.
Shel > [Original Message] > From: frank theriault > On 10/1/06, Shel Belinkoff wrote: > > The quality could have been improved quite a bit, > > but the 30 or so I looked at were nice documentaries > > from the past. Kind of interesting to see what > > people were wearing, what they looked like, their > > openness ... not a one that I saw flipped the bird to > > the photog ;-)) Good old days ;-)) > Kind of reminds me of your "buddy", Augie Wren. > > There's something strangely compelling about this series. Hundreds of > people passing by the same point (or points) in one evening, some 40 > or 45 years ago. Some annoyed, some indifferent, some not even > noticing the camera. > > I wonder how many of them are even alive anymore? I wonder who they > were, who they became. > > To me, this is photography at it's best - examining the human > condition. They may not be of the best quality, but they sure as hell > speak to me. -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List [email protected] http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net
