Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2000/05/19
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]It was Harvey Keitel who played the store owner, but the other details are spot on (as I remember anyway). - ----- Original Message ----- From: "Michael Bell" <mbell@mail.utexas.edu> To: <leica-users@mejac.palo-alto.ca.us> Sent: Friday, May 19, 2000 1:52 PM Subject: Re: [Leica] [leica] streets and other... > Guy Bennett <guybnt@idt.net> writes: > >maybe the point is documentation. to capture on film the way life is being > >lived by the inhabitants of a given place at a given time, all going about > >their business as they normally do, unaware for the most part that they are > >being recorded on film. > > Did anyone see the movie Smoke? One of the characters in the movie > owned a smoke shop in New York City. I think the actor was Danny > Aielo? Anyway, every day at the exact same time and from the same > place he would go outside his store and take a single picture. Didn't > matter what was in the picture. As soon as the time struck, he > snapped it. > > He did this for many years, decades I think, and had several albums. > Looking at the pictures you'd see the seasons change. Over a longer > period of time you saw clothing and car style changes. Sometimes > there is nothing but buildings in the shot. Sometimes a big crowd of > people. > > At first impression it seems like a silly thing to do. But then when > you are able to grasp the whole scope of it, it is quite moving. > > It is a good movie in general, well worth seeing. > > > > -- > Michael Bell > MBell@mail.utexas.edu >