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15-AUG-2012

No sushi for them, Hollywood, California, 2012

The incongruous abstract close-up of a woman eating sushi, filling a row of doors at the entrance to a bright red building, provides a huge contrast in scale when played against the two small boys standing before it. The red building seems to be a sushi restaurant – silver shafts of oversized bamboo tubing complete the décor here. When one of the boys pointed to something in the distance, it was obvious that they are not on Hollywood Boulevard for the sushi. Yet his pointing arm still echoes the horizontal thrust of the black chopsticks feeding sushi into those huge red lips. The two silver railings echo the color of the bamboo decorations, and also repeat the horizontal rhythms of the arm and the chopsticks. The boys wear yellow and blue clothing, adding two additional primary colors to the red in the lips and building. These vivid colors, huge scale contrasts, and rhythmic repetitions, as well as the incongruous nature of the photo on the restaurant door, combine here to make this an expressive street photograph. We are left to wonder what these children must think of this scene, and what seems to be beckoning them from afar.

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Phil Douglis20-Sep-2012 00:42
You can see it here, Carol:http://www.pbase.com/irislm/image/145920126
Carol E Sandgren19-Sep-2012 22:59
To me, that thing on the end of the chopstick looks more like a rotten tooth extracted than a piece of fine sushi! But that's just me....not a lover of sushi at all. No wonder the kid is pointing!
Phil Douglis02-Sep-2012 23:47
I will be interested in comparing the two images side by side, Iris. I look forward to seeing your own take.
Iris Maybloom (irislm)02-Sep-2012 00:29
I love this image.......in fact, I'm going to include a very similar one in my gallery! After all, we were standing side by side!!
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