Location: Broad and Tasker Streets
Camera: Panasonic Lumix G2
Lens:
Olympus 14-42 ED
File size and print size: 10” x 15” @240 dpi
Print: Epson Artison 1430/Cone Color Inks/Moab Lasal
It had started out as a bright and sunny day, but had
quietly transformed into a gray afternoon. The section of Pennsport and South
Philly I had trekked turned up little; even the junk shop I had photographed a
scant few weeks ago, I could not locate again. All I seemed to encounter were
row upon row of well-maintained homes. On Delaware Avenue one feels as if one
is standing on the precipice looking down on the end of humanity. If I ever
figure out how to squeeze that into a photograph, I’ll really have something!
I think of the photography more as a journey than a
destination. I don’t worry if my travels yield no photographs. The images
always seem to find me. Lo and behold at Broad and Tasker I spotted an empty
store that beckoned me. This was another case of barely remembering taking the
shot, except that I recall repositioning my left hand to get a better
composition and then the second figure appeared in the background and I hit the
shutter. The man in profile is like a
specter from the days of The Rat Pack. It was not until I got home and brought
up the file that I noticed that the reflection was the same man I remember
noticing shortly afterward. He had trucked past me as I made my way home.
The print required a lot of time to let me know what it
needed, to find its pictorial structure. There were twenty-two iterations.
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