“Read This…”

“Read This If You Want To Take Great Photographs of People,” by Henry Carroll, Laurence King Publishing, 2015. (From Irving Penn gift shop, in the Met Museum…)

Irving Penn, at the Met Museum exhibition.

Speaking of Irving Penn, it’s almost impossible to look at this photo and imagine, if it’s there or not, a Weegee influence…
(Or, maybe it’s just a coincidence that they photographed similar signs in the same place, on the Bowery… Or, maybe for different reasons, they were drawn to similar signs on the Bowery…)