[Leica] Brooklyn Bridge

[tedgrant at shaw.ca (Ted Grant)]

Matt Morgan showed and said:
Subject: Re: [Leica] Brooklyn Bridge


> Jeffery, it was around 10 years ago.
>
> It's one of my personal favourites. What I like about it is catching this 
> old guy, who sleeps rough and is sort of trapped in the area,  looking at 
> a ship heading out to somewhere in the world. The more I look at it, the 
> more I get from it, as I can almost feel his melancholy.
>
> I was also interested in getting a shot of one of the world's most famous 
> landmarks, but from a different angle. We normally see the 'bright lights' 
> of Manhattan with the Brooklyn Bridge shot from the Brooklyn side. The 
> reality of the area then, was it was rough and full of shacks for the 
> homeless, belying the image the bridge usually projects.
>
> BTW, it was shot on a colour transparency, but screamed out to be B&W, so 
> I had a B&W neg made from it then.
>
> With that 'old-look'. I also like the first image of the Manhattan skyline 
> from a bus in New Jersey because it seems like a 1930's or 40s postcard 
> shot.

Hi Matt,
This is an ageless photograph, particularly since you changed it into B&W!
As you say:  >>it seems like a 1930's or 40s postcard shot.<<< It does as it 
looks like an old shot out of LIFE magazine kind of shot.

ted