Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2007/05/13
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This is the first I've heard of those guys shooting in
Brooks Brothers suits. A bit of a wrong note there, if
you ask me.
>trying to steal
> moments, not souls, to find the past
>
> inside the present, catch the already
> falling out of fashion.
I like that a lot better; it suggests that Faulkner
qoute about the South's past not being dead.
--- Bill Clough <bill_clough@yahoo.com> wrote:
> 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.
>
>
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