W/NW Subway

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Franklin Avenue Shuttle, Brooklyn, NY

(Technical: Hexar RF, M-Hex 50mm f/2, Ilford XP2)


- Barrett
 
I've actually been working on a D.C. Metro series for the past year or so. My whole Metro set can be seen on Flickr. Here's a couple:
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Another:
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I took this with my father's camera coming home from the 1965 World's Fair. I was about an 11 year old child. He said" You're going to waste film, it won't come out, you can't take a picture in the subway without a flash.". I said "Yes, I can.", and he was angry with me for the whole ride. My father exposed maybe one roll of film every two years, and was very worried about "wasting" a frame. A birthday maybe got two shots, and the World's Fair got maybe five pictures. It took him another 6 months to finish this roll and I was able to see if my picture "came out".

The camera was a Zeiss Contaflex with a 2.8 Tessar. When he saw the picture, instead of complimenting me that my picture "came out", he said: "Why did you waste film taking a picture of people we don't know?".

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I posted this once before, I think. This is the 1980's, pre-Guiliani NYC subway:

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