Salacuse is the type of person who always seems to have a project or five. I first met him in 2000, and we have been friends since then. (We are now colleagues in his son-in-law: his wife, Stacy, photo editor in the magazine.) I do not remember that he mentioned a street on the thirty-fourth when we met-then he was immersed in a different project in New York, where he photographed black nudity clubs in Bronx. In the following decades, he became a prominent music photographer (he photographed the NIS IS Good album); The obsession of the Salloum Gold Market (a company called the negative and selling group began Publications made of abandoned negatives that he found); And a comic director (includes filming videos by Sam Morel and Stavros Halkias). He told me that a few years ago, when his inspiration was to restore his thirty -fourth negatives from the basement of his mother, he was happy with the happiness of their admiration for them. About the passage of a quarter of a century, the photos of what they always mean to be: a time capsule for the New York New York Championship. The tattoo had attracted his attention, in a way that they may not do today. Some strange technology has grown over time, such as VHS cassette holding a woman, or the phone number he published from (or claimed that) some tickets to the Beastie Boys party.
By grabbing passengers, Salacuse also acquired a time when the division between the house and the work was more severe: many of its subjects wear suits, which distinguish them as workers in the offices, and travel between these two worlds; None of them look at smartphones, which have since helped erode this distinction. It seems that a man has spent a long day at work: a dual spoonful suitable suit jacket, a back of his upper shirt button, and his neck, holds a junction of the elbow-“arms it”, as SALACUSE puts it. Salacuse was just a few feet when he took the picture, but he remembers that both were immersed in their dispute to pay any attention to him. In general, his policy was to take one photo and then continue to move, assuming that most of his subjects will continue to move as well. “If you take a second picture, you really open yourself to check,” he says. There was an exception to the characters he seen regularly on the street, especially the ornament sellers, who challenge the logic of the road: their goal was to boycott the peak hour, persuade the pedestrians to stop and stay for a long time to buy something.
The thirty -fourth street is not famous for thirty -fourth and second, but not mysterious. However, many people who have never visited New York on “Miracle on 34 Street”, a Christmas movie based on the book of the same name, which is partially located within the most famous monuments in the street: the main site of Misi. (Salacuse noticed, on more than one occasion, that someone is running out of the store with a group of stolen clothes.) There is also the large building often referred to as the 34th Street Post Office, although, in reality, it ranges between thirty -3 and thirty. For many people in the region, the largest attraction is the Pennsylvania station, a more crowded train station in the Western hemisphere, which is largely underground – at the street level, and is mainly present as a matrix of entrances and outside. It was the most obvious, the Empire State building, also Visible for Salacuse: Try to ensure that it has not tightly dominated his cut pictures. “If you are neglected, you can get it in every picture,” he says. One of the photos shows a replica of it, along with a model plane, in the MACY window that has been installed. He could not know that this joyful picture of a plane next to a skyscraper would prove to be the most of the twentieth century in the street-which would change its meaning more in the next century.
