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COLLAGE COUPLETS WITH THE SNAPSHOT AESTHETIC


At the Truth Study Center Pope mastered
his approach to the demotic subject's
 
canny ability to strike the right
application of cinematic pose.
 
More often he had serial images:
readers he takes--even photographers.
 
Streetcar passengers in Chicago & NYC:
source time of the snapshot aesthetic.

Its appeal to transience--as always,
it's good to see a moment that counts.
 
How the everyday in crisp detail
had tenure in the way
 
most famous camera-toting people
matter with both found and personal.


Barry Alpert / Silver Spring, MD US / 4-27-06 (5:03 PM)


My process involved considerable editing and until I shifted one couplet 
today from the end to the middle, there was an elusive quality which kept 
me from posting this text until now.  Also, I made an initial choice not to 
write a sonnet, but when I realized that 14 lines were left standing after 
working over two sources, I decided why not continue my variations within 
that format.