Blah blah blah on commuting
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- Sep 8, 2020
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After months I haven’t been to the office, this is how it felt on my morning commute. It was so good to be out, ride and make up and dress up a bit for work.
Bob Willoughby, Audrey Hepburn on the set of My Fair Lady, 1963
However, the reality was more this, especially on the way back home (damned you scooters and other electric bikes!) :
HuskMitNavn, Fastest Bike in Town, 2020
The commute has inspired artists of course (what doesn’t!) and one of my favourite photographer for it would be the talented Kazuo Sumida. In his series A Story in the NYC Subway (1995), he magnifies this unique world where all categories of people (the 9 to 5 worker, the beggars, the students going to parties…) are mixing, rubbing shoulders to each other. Each picture is perfectly framed, with a strong black and white contrast, and focusing not on the hellish situation it can be but on the human side of it. People are smiling, they are kissing, holding each other… It is beautifully done and looking at it, I would almost miss taking the tube.
Kazuo Sumida, West 28th Street, 1995
Kazuo Sumida, 9 Train, 1995
Kazuo Sumida, B Train, 1995
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