Ash Wendnesday, New Oreans
Alec Soth SUPER LABO 17 イメージ(白黒)

17 イメージ(白黒)

a street photographer cannot but continuously click the shutter of his camera in perpetuity

This happened in the midle of 60s

From the slides folded in this way

All I had to do was to raise the camera and blink to make a photograph

Ash Wendnesday, New Oreans<br />Alec Soth SUPER LABO 17 イメージ(白黒)I went to New Oreleans for Mardi Gras but couldn't handle all of the communal joy. I decided to spend Fat Tuesday alone in my hotel room watching TV. I left the room for the midnight police sweep of Bourbon street,the official end of Mardi Gras then photographed the aftermath. Ten years ago I photographed Adelyn on the morning after Mardi Gras."Just cigarette ashes," she'd told me. Adelyn agreed to meet me again outside of St. Louis Cathedral. On the