Surrounded by supplies, equipment, memorabilia, and menus, a café proprietor tracks his business minute by minute. In case any of his customers might wonder where they are, the neon sign on the wall will let them know. Above it is a framed photograph of Ebbets Field, former home of the Brooklyn Dodgers.

Below the Brooklyn sign is a framed poster featuring Ruth Orkin’s 1951 iconic street photograph “American Girl in Italy,”

(For more about the Orkin image, see http://exposurecompensation.com/2006/12/28/american-girl-in-italy-by-ruth-orkin/ ).

Meanwhile the proprietor pays no heed to any of it – he seems totally absorbed in his task.