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Phil Douglis | all galleries >> Galleries >> Gallery Sixty Eight: A city portrait -- impressions of New York > Contrasts, New York City, New York, 2009
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20-MAR-2009

Contrasts, New York City, New York, 2009

Since there are probably more people on the streets of Manhattan than in any other US city, chances are that there are more cell phones in use as well. I found this odd couple making phone calls just outside Macy’s at Herald Square. The red-haired woman never moved her feet, just her lips. The man in black with the hat was pacing back and forth in front of her, and never stopped talking. The contrasts are abundant: man/woman, red/black, short/tall, sharp/soft, still/moving, left handed/right handed. Given the differences in costume, I would guess they probably also represent entirely different cultures. They each speak to a person they can’t see, and neither of them see each other, even though they are but a mere foot or two apart at the moment.

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Phil Douglis03-Apr-2009 01:30
You are right, Tim -- everywhere we turned in New York, we saw such contrasts. Such diversity gives the city its character, vitality, and energy.
Tim May02-Apr-2009 23:33
And - the contrasts make for the rich texture of what we saw and experienced.
Phil Douglis31-Mar-2009 02:30
Thanks, Carol -- I think that after being in New York awhile, we become almost numbed by the contrasts, and no longer can appreciate them for what they are. When you have been away for awhile and then come back into the middle of the city, those contrasts really hit you. They are everywhere you look.
Carol E Sandgren31-Mar-2009 00:32
That's what NYC is made of.... contrasts. You illustrate that fact perfectly here with these two very different people, standing together yet total strangers.
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