The Stare - 1971 - a photo on Flickriver

The Stare - 1971

            Here's another old shot, scanned from an Agfacolor negative that had incurred a lot of damage over the years - despite hardly being handled. I removed some, left the rest as a sort of textural overlay. 

I remember this moment well. I was walking a country road and passed by an old farmhouse - spooky, dilapidated - when this old fellow came out. I said hello. He just stared at me. So I raised my camera and took his picture. At the time, I interpreted his behaviour as hostility, and that is certainly possible, but it's also possible that he was deaf, or didn't speak English, or had some impairment. I'll never know.

He was probably in his seventies, which means he would have been born sometime in the late 1890s. Who knows what he thought of this hippie-like kid with the fancy camera? Just another moment in time, one of the estimated 80,000 people I would meet in my lifetime if I lived in a city and lasted an average life span (but I've lived in the country more than the city, and may well surpass the average span - do these two factors offset each other?). 

Photographed in Waterloo, Ontario (Canada); scanned from the original Agfacolor negative. Don't use this image on websites, blogs, or other media without explicit permission © 1971 James R. Page - all rights reserved.

Taken in: Canada / Ontario / Waterloo / Rummelhardt (show map)

Taken on: October 1, 1971

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