Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2007/05/12
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]USA TEXAS CORPUS CHRISTI 12 May 2007 Hi there-- This was featured on Saturday's "Writer's Almanac." "American Image" by Sebastian Matthews I want to be Walker Evans or Robert Frank setting up shots in the street?renegades in Brooks Brothers suits with Leicas draped on their chests snapping shots of the downtrodden, of churches, bits of billboard, bored debutantes at posh parties you'd have to fast-talk your way into; or aboard an ocean liner, itching to disembark; down in the boiler room waiting for the foreman to look away so you can frame his profile with an arabesque of pipes and release valves. I'd want to be out on assignment taking far fewer rolls than I'm being paid for, down south alongside sharecroppers and the sunburnt poor?trying to steal moments, not souls, to find the past inside the present, catch the already falling out of fashion.