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06/23/2008 09:21:36 PM · #1 |
I was researching New York City for an article I'm writing, and I came across this photo on Wikipedia.
I knew I just had to share it with folks who would appreciate it.
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06/23/2008 09:24:03 PM · #2 |
| Thanks for sharing that. So much to look at. I'm taking it at face value, but it almost looks staged. |
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06/23/2008 09:25:35 PM · #3 |
| I agree. Lots of people are looking right at the camera. |
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06/23/2008 09:27:09 PM · #4 |
| And to think, I saw it on Wikipedia. ;-) |
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06/23/2008 09:44:31 PM · #5 |
| Aaaaaugh! I spent all that effort staging a shot for the Free Study with modeling clay and toothpicks, and now you've all seen it. Two hours WASTED! Thanks a lot, Richard. :-( |
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06/23/2008 09:45:03 PM · #6 |
If you look real close you'll see this guy with a mustache and a grey fedora...
I'm pretty sure he owes me money.
And he looks much better in B&W...trust me. |
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06/23/2008 09:52:35 PM · #7 |
hand coloured ..
& to think i saw it on Mulberry street
very cool
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06/23/2008 09:54:34 PM · #8 |
Notice that some of the photo is in black and white? Some people and a lot of the background.
Look at the man near the bottom left. He is sitting down behind a rail. He is just above the child and was bucket. Little did he know that 108 years later he would be seen on film still picking his nose
Message edited by author 2008-06-23 21:59:47. |
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06/23/2008 10:05:55 PM · #9 |
I'm thinking a lot of people are looking into the camera because a camera was a big deal back then. And huge! There was no way you couldn't see it when a photographer was setting up for a shot.
Very cool image - love those hand colored tones. |
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06/23/2008 10:12:08 PM · #10 |
| I bet if you took a shot on Mulberry Street today (is it still there?) you'd still catch a guy picking his nose. The true classics never go out of fashion! |
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06/23/2008 10:12:30 PM · #11 |
Originally posted by SDW:
Notice that some of the photo is in black and white? Some people and a lot of the background.
Look at the man near the bottom left. He is sitting down behind a rail. He is just above the child and was bucket. Little did he know that 108 years later he would be seen on film still picking his nose |
Actually, he's scraping just below his eye, looks like to me... The selective hand coloring is interesting for sure. And as redjulep said, in those days whenever a camera was set up it was a huge deal; big tripod, giant camera with bellows, black cloth over head, the whole 9 yards. Plus, of course, you can see the camera was elevated well above street level for this shot, so it would have been rather prominent.
Thanks for sharing!
R.
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06/23/2008 10:15:42 PM · #12 |
Originally posted by SDW:
Originally posted by Bear_Music:
Look at the man near the bottom left. He is sitting down behind a rail. He is just above the child and was bucket. Little did he know that 108 years later he would be seen on film still picking his nose |
Actually, he's scraping just below his eye, looks like to me... |
That's what I thought too, just dabbing at his eye or something. Now if you look at the little boy in the light blue sailor suit directly adjacent to camera right of that man, in the street, you'll see someone really picking his nose. :-) Thanks for sharing this photo.
Message edited by author 2008-06-23 22:16:04. |
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06/23/2008 10:17:55 PM · #13 |
| Yup, cameras didn't have FPS back in those days. It was FPD! |
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06/23/2008 10:18:19 PM · #14 |
| Nobody looks particularly happy... is there even one person smiling? (Not even the guy with the glass of beer.) |
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06/23/2008 10:22:43 PM · #15 |
mulberry street is still there in Greenwich village
Message edited by author 2008-06-23 22:22:53. |
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06/23/2008 10:35:38 PM · #16 |
| Cool shot. I wonder what the exposure time was. Looks to me to be about 60 to 125th of a second. Not much is blurred. |
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06/23/2008 10:35:42 PM · #17 |
Originally posted by Louis:
Nobody looks particularly happy... is there even one person smiling? (Not even the guy with the glass of beer.) |
Actually, there's a kid at the very bottom, just right of center, under the kid holding the baby, who is smiling a rather sly smile ;-)
R.
Message edited by author 2008-06-23 23:04:23.
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06/23/2008 10:50:01 PM · #18 |
Originally posted by Louis:
Nobody looks particularly happy... is there even one person smiling? (Not even the guy with the glass of beer.) |
In those days broadband was a ladies' undergarment, and Photoshop wasn't released yet. Years of delays eventually led to The Great Depression. |
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06/23/2008 10:53:16 PM · #19 |
Damn, no EXIF ;-)
Really an astoundingly good shot for that time period. What a piece of history! Look at the faces, so many ethnically diverse people. |
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06/23/2008 10:58:50 PM · #20 |
There is no match yet for an 8X10 or larger negative, and a good tilt and shift. One of my friends, Clyde Butcher, still shoots with an 8X10 so that he can make 15 ft long prints with just unreal detail and sharpness from top to bottom.
That image is an exceptional frozen moment, and so full of city life, at a time completely different from today.
I also noticed that a lot of the subjects are looking at the camera. The photog probably fired a gun and got the shot before everyone had time to look away LOL.
Message edited by author 2008-06-23 23:03:13.
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06/24/2008 08:38:59 AM · #21 |
Where's Waldo?
Something that I find interesting is that almost every male that is standing up is wearing a hat, even most of the boys.
Originally posted by SDW:
Notice that some of the photo is in black and white? Some people and a lot of the background. |
The far distance is still black and white and up close is hand colored. Whoever hand colored this shot had a hard time deciding where to stop. The man that can be seen between the carriages crossing the street at the next block has a colored shirt (brownish red), but the rest of him and his surroundings were left black and white. It sort of seems like the person doing the hand coloring started and then decided to stop. |
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06/24/2008 08:52:44 AM · #22 |
| Is it just me? or do all the "bad guys" stand out from the "nice guys" even the kids...you can tell which ones are little shits and which ones are well behaved. |
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06/24/2008 09:01:00 AM · #23 |
| I first looked at it on a school monitor (it's such a slow crappy machine, that particular one); now I look at it at home - the difference is amazing. ;-Þ) |
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06/24/2008 09:03:08 AM · #24 |
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06/24/2008 09:05:42 AM · #25 |
| could you imagine trying to repeat this shot today!? a taxi would probably run you over before you even stood up your ladder or what ever he used to get that high!!! |
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