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4 November, 2005 • Express Train
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You've got a great sequence, in this shot people are reading papers or books, then coming home there are two men on Blackberries.
Great stuff, the way you angled the two shots are really good too.
All these people reading newspapers would make my editors heart happy. I can't imagine trying to read on a bouncing, jostling train.
It's a read in! I wonder how many languages are represented in this shot?
Great shot! Love the diversity in the similarities you've captured. Some are reading English and others aren't. Yet, everyone is engaged in their own paper. Your photos are trully spectacular and inspiring... Who knows, I'll perhaps (one day) get over my fear of shooting this close to folks!
When I lived in Boston, my mother came to visit me and one of her observations as we took the T everywhere was "Everyone reads here." Which, yeah, if you take the same train everyday, you eventually find something to do to pass the time like reading, or perhaps, taking photos.
I love the angle of this. I actually leaned closer to my computer screen when I first saw it.
pcc
Hey, I know this guy! I suppose it was only a mtter of time...
^ ^ Quick - go tell him he's famous!
This is an awesome shot! A truely great sight. The two newspapers of different languages in the foreground just add to it.
New York is the only city in the US with more than three major daily hometown newspapers (New York Daily News, Wall Street Journal, New York Times, New York Post, in addition to the secondary papers like the Staten Island Advance and New York Newsday). There are an additional 22 daily non-English language newspapers in New York, including ones in Polish, Korean, Turkish, Italian, Spanish, Russian, Chinese, and Greek. The combined daily circulation of New York's newspapers is 4.6 million. There are also dozens of weekly publications, including ones of extremely high quality such as The New Yorker magazine and New York Magazine, in addition to ethnic publications in Yiddish, Hindi, French, Armenian, Japanese, Latvian, German, Norweigan, Finnish and Hebrew, among other languages.
One reason for the extraordinary literacy of New Yorkers is because the city is built around public transportation. While the rest of America sits in SUVs gridlocked on beltways from Las Vegas to Atlanta, New Yorkers engage with books, music and newspapers on the train. Perhaps this also provides opportunities for inspiration, as New York is home to the largest concentration of musicians, artists, and writers in North America.
In New York reading is not an activity for elites with lesiure time, but the persuit of the working masses.
For more on New York's media, see:
http://www.mitchellmoss.com/books/nycmedia.html
For statistics on even the most obscure topics in New York, see CUNY's new website of comprehensive city data:
http://www.baruch.cuny.edu/nycdata/
Roland, That is easily the most fact laden comment I've ever seen on my sit! Thanks for the great information and insight. Victoria have your friend email me. I have a few interviews with people who turned up in the photos. Thanks! Travis
awesome. this is the photo I've always wished I could've taken.
Wonderful! Haven't been able to visit for a week or so and so I had a bit of catching-up to do. Loved it all so far, moved by several. This one however., leaves me speechless . . . . almost! I don't buy newspapers myself, as a teacher, I spend my life on the Internet as school as a resource to my lessons (Physics) so I get everything I need as I surf. I almost went out and bought a newspaper, just to be a part.
That's interesting. Here at portugal there aren't as many newspaper readers.
My question is do theser people even know that you are taking there pictures and putting it on the internet. I would be outraged if I found out that my picture was on the internet without my permisson.
would you be outraged if your photo had been taken and it ended up in a newspaper? These are real people doing real things in real life. without documentation of our lives we would live in a very narrowly focused and uneducated world. i appreciate the question, I'm just wondering if we have all been made to fear the internet more than other mediums. what are your thoughts WDYWTK?