I don’t remember if I liked this movie very much. The habit or practice of photographers placing people next to posters, goes back a very long time. Brassai & HCB both did it in the 1930s and others have been doing it ever since. Bourke White’s view of poor black people lined up under the giant billboard proclaiming how great America was for happy white people, is probably the best example of it working in a way that isn’t just funny. Street photography offers these juxtapositions on occasion and it is very hard to pass on them…I suppose I should work on suppressing the urge when it overcomes me…then again, maybe not.

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Photographing NYC for 25 years, six of them while driving a New York City taxi. Trying very hard to capture the city as life unfolds, meaning I never stage any of my photos! Also I am a close confidant of the immortal Dave Beckerman, (quintessential NYC photographer) and owner of the first photography blog in the known universe.

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