At one time Bill. My guess is, based on his posture and 'influence' level, my guess is he's not one of them. We all see life differently. Thanks for evoking thought. LVPG
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17-Nov-2008 19:27
mmmm sometimes choices and sometimes not. Worked NYC most of my life and there are a significant number of mentally ill among the street people. -Bill
Guest
13-Nov-2008 18:18
Hi Bill. Love the pic, but I would title it "Choices." One can either look at it as the choice of some to not help or the choice of others not to help themselves. I've done a lot of work in NY. At first I felt pain, then just anger as most on the street are there because of their [poor] choices. Sounds cold until you get the story from them. LVPG
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02-Nov-2008 14:57
Flick, it may well be. I visualized it in B&W and only today looked at it in color and the color sampler shows a brickish red indicative of blood. I gave the guy some money for food and he was concious but under the influence of something and also quite cold. I asked him to buy food and he said he would that he was hungry.
Life in NYC, aarrgghhh so much for some and so little for others, can be painful. I've also called this indifference but scorn or "don't ruin my day" is more on point.
Bill, this is just the sort of image i had in mind for anyone wanting to interpret in a less technically literal way, and the reason i included the Weejee photo of the ladies arriving at the opera in their furs and diamonds and the disgruntled bag lady.
Your photo makes a point very well: the three well to do shoppers seem to be thinking only of theri next destination and appear totally unaware of the despairing figure in the image foreground. Is that a trail of blood behind him/her?
Flick.
