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16-APR-2004

Canon EOS 10D
1/50s f/2.5 at 50.0mm iso200 hide exif
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Date/Time16-Apr-2004 13:54:10
MakeCanon
ModelEOS 10D
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Focal Length50 mm
Exposure Time1/50 sec
Aperturef/2.5
ISO Equivalent200
Exposure Bias-0.33
White Balance (-1)
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salt_water 03-Dec-2006 12:10
Less says more. Great comment.
When I passed by subway and saw some beggars, I had some feeling too. But I just can't express it in my DC. By Zhou did it.
alibenn19-Feb-2005 16:53
This too is very powerful, more minimalist than the other I commented on, but equally profound.
Guest 11-Jan-2005 04:05
Jennifer, I like this image very much. Without showing the beggar's & the passerby's faces, there's much room to for viewers to imagine & interpret by themselves what their facial expressions are. The blurry front leg of the passerby implies that he is on the move and very likely trying to ignore the beggar. Yet the other leg appears static, which gives me the impression that before this leg gets put in motion forward, he still has time to change his mind and stops to help the beggar. Which choice he'll be making is up to the viewer's imagination, and this is made possible because we don't see his face and so we don't know which direction he is looking at. Vera.
Guest 18-Dec-2004 11:31
I like this one a lot, the truth is that it makes me think if one of mine were there is a baggabond paying the harmonica and the people walking by without paying any atention it is like the selfishness and individuality in a photo no one cares about someone that is having a bad moment if they don't know them selfs personaly. Real nice. In this case, the moovement of the foot gives more this sense of rushing beside this guy.
Tami23-Oct-2004 02:15
Whenever I see this on the street it always appears as if life is passing the beggars by and they are stagnant. Their life is reduced to begging instead of getting up and making positive things happen. They rely to much on other peoples generosity and they are not using their own power. You display this in your photo.
Phil Douglis02-Oct-2004 05:12
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Phil Douglis16-Aug-2004 19:55
The more I look at this, Jen, Brian, and Marek, the more I like it. It is one of Jen's most abstract efforts at photojournalism. She lets less say more here. She graps the fundamental idea that you don't have to show everything in order to tell a story. The story unfolds as much within our own minds and imaginations, as it does in the image. This picture is a catalyst to thought and is the most significant function of photographic expression.
Guest 16-Aug-2004 14:44
Storytelling reduced to a beautiful minimum. Black/white. Moving/still. Have/have not. We are left guessing about these people's faces and reactions, but in reality we don't need to see them as this is the story of all us.
Phil Douglis13-Aug-2004 05:36
Brian likes it and so do it. By abstracting the beggar and the commuter, you are saying that we all could easily become either of these people. We have become immune to the needs of our fellow man.
Guest 28-Jun-2004 13:01
OMG, this is good. Great symbolism. B-Real
Guest 21-Apr-2004 04:41
love this one.
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