I was walking from the back of this frame and turned around upon reaching the position from which this picture is taken to look back at the striking mannequins. When I first looked, the shop owner had gone into the shop briefly; when she came out and started cleaning the pavement I raised the camera to my eye. I pressed the shutter when she moved into the position in which she is pictured. Inexplicably, in that split second, I didn\'t realize that she obviously had struck a pose — perhaps because other people had photographed these mannequins — nor did I see the sign about the U.S. Army on the window. What does the U.S. Army never let you do? I don’t know what is the last word of this lettering. But the U.S. Army as well as the CIA was active in Thailand during the Viet Nam war and in years after that…
Generally, I tend to look at this type of photograph as a cliché. In my unpublished book project called “Bangkok Hysteria”, I have a picture of a dreary-looking woman carrying a coffee-cup on her way to work passing a huge poster of a glamorous fashion model — and have been thinking of cutting that picture from the book.
Perhaps the conjuncture of the pose, the mannequins and the lettering on the window makes the picture below less of cliché. Not sure. What do you think?
M-Monochrom | DR Summicron-50 | ISO 320 | f/4.8 | 1/350 Bangkok
I was walking from the back of this frame and turned around upon reaching the position from which this picture is taken to look back at the striking mannequins. When I first looked, the shop owner had gone into the shop briefly; when she came out and started cleaning the pavement I raised the camera to my eye. I pressed the shutter when she moved into the position in which she is pictured. Inexplicably, in that split second, I didn\'t realize that she obviously had struck a pose — perhaps because other people had photographed these mannequins — nor did I see the sign about the U.S. Army on the window. What does the U.S. Army never let you do? I don’t know what is the last word of this lettering. But the U.S. Army as well as the CIA was active in Thailand during the Viet Nam war and in years after that…
Generally, I tend to look at this type of photograph as a cliché. In my unpublished book project called “Bangkok Hysteria”, I have a picture of a dreary-looking woman carrying a coffee-cup on her way to work passing a huge poster of a glamorous fashion model — and have been thinking of cutting that picture from the book.
Perhaps the conjuncture of the pose, the mannequins and the lettering on the window makes the picture below less of cliché. Not sure. What do you think?
M-Monochrom | DR Summicron-50 | ISO 320 | f/4.8 | 1/350 Bangkok
