Photos at Occupying Wall Street

[Ari]

Rory, I pmed you, but I wanted to add my thanks once again.

[r.e.]

Ari,

Hey, this is interesting. Four more Re-Tweets, not big ones, but in four hours, the link to your photos has now gone to 1700 people.

[r.e.]

In tomorrow's Sunday New York Times, Robert Hass, age 70, former Poet Laureate of the United States, on being beaten with a billy club at UC Berkley ten days ago: http://www.nytimes.com/2011/11/20/op...ted=all?src=tp

If the moderators feel that offering this link is political, please feel free to delete. Given who Mr. Hass is, I just thought that there might be some interest in reading what he has to say. There's some fine writing in this piece.

[Jan Pedersen]

With all due respect i think there is way to much fat between the meat in this piece of writing, not unsurpricing coming from a poet.
I do have sympathy for the movement but as it developed here in Portland OR it was basically a group of homeless people getting together for the ride with very little leadership. The Mayor who himself need someone with strenght and knowledge close by to keep him a leader tried to take a sensible approach from the beginning but in the end had to serve the 99% Anything wrong with that?

[Ari]

Ari,

Hey, this is interesting. Four more Re-Tweets, not big ones, but in four hours, the link to your photos has now gone to 1700 people.

Thanks, Rory.
Wow, tekmology, eh?

[r.e.]

http://lens.blogs.nytimes.com/2011/1...zuccotti-park/

http://www.99facesofoccupywallst.org...August-Bradley

[jeroldharter]

What a bunch of garbage. At least it is digital and they are not wasting film on it. Like an opotheosis of a Diane Arbus freak show.

[Jim Michael]

Looks like a cross section of who I see walking around Manhattan. Welcome to the 21st century.

[r.e.]

What a bunch of garbage.

For what it's worth, the photographer received a Hasselblad Masters award in 2008, and one of his photographs was selected for the cover of the annual book associated with the awards: http://www.hasselblad.com/masters-2008.aspx

His web site and blog contain some interesting technical material as well as his photographs: http://AugustBradley.com

[Brian C. Miller]

What a bunch of garbage. At least it is digital and they are not wasting film on it.

Can there ever be a waste of film?

I really wish that it had been shot on film instead of digital capture. I would absolutely love to see film supported as rabidly as any of these demonstrations. Life magazine published 100 Photographs That Changed the World, and I don't think that there's a single digital capture in there.

There is no waste of film. After all, once upon a time Kodak's sales were 95% snapshots, 5% motion picture film. There was Techpan, even in 8x10. There was HIE. And now Kodak's film sales are 95% motion picture film and 5% snapshots. We band together to purchase film in $15,000 lots. The winds are cold, and the wolves howl. The little film girl begs upon the street. Come the cold, harsh morning, somebody will happen by, flick out a cell phone, and tweet, "fownd X-( gal QL" and attach a blurry 640x480 snap.