Sunday, November 17, 2024

Real People

 I posted some street work recently on my photography blog from New York's Chinatown in the mid-'60s.  I wondered if anything of that lively community could still be found on those streets of lower Manhattan.

I haven't had an answer to that query so far, but I'm skeptical of finding a scene like this now. It seems most likely that modern counterparts of the group would all be focused on the screens of their phones and oblivious to any surrounding reality.

Rebecca Solnit expresses similar misgivings in a thoughtful essay in The Guardian:

Turns out the zombie apocalypse isn’t as fun as they said it would be –

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