{"id":2721,"date":"2011-05-12T04:44:31","date_gmt":"2011-05-12T09:44:31","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/willceau.com\/news\/?p=2721"},"modified":"2019-11-25T16:51:14","modified_gmt":"2019-11-25T21:51:14","slug":"frank-rizzo-on-broad-street","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/willceau.com\/news\/2011\/05\/12\/frank-rizzo-on-broad-street\/","title":{"rendered":"Frank Rizzo on Broad Street"},"content":{"rendered":"

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It’s 1982,<\/strong> and I’m walking North on Broad Street not far from the Philadelphia College of Art<\/strong> where I was attending at the time when suddenly former Mayor Frank Rizzo<\/strong> appears larger than life. I’m not sure if there was an occasion for his appearance, but he was happy to stop and press the flesh or chit-chat with passers-by as he slowly made his way to wherever he was going. I had my 35mm SLR loaded with a roll of Pan-X for some seemingly senseless assignment in the photography elective all illustration students were required to take. I decided that Philly’s own Big Bambino<\/em> was going to be more interesting than any one of my painfully contrived shots so I squeezed off some frames.\"\"<\/a><\/p>\n

I think I made a print of the frame above cropping out the woman and brought it in to school where upon the class had to put up with a political dissertation from the photography teacher. Other than a contact sheet and the one print, this is the first time these negatives have been printed. <\/em>They have been sitting in a 3 ring binder for about 3 decades.
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\"\"<\/a>His appearance seemed to generate a lot of excitement, and folks were happy to see him, and I was happy to take some pictures that weren’t tedious still lives or faux-art ironic juxtapositions .<\/p>\n

\"\"<\/a>The shot below is interesting in that it was the very end of the roll, and I got half of an exposure. I was able to grab it with my scanner, and the image ends up being interesting like a lot of stuff I do – by accident.<\/em><\/p>\n

\"\"<\/a>Thanks, Frank. You were the most interesting part of that dreary and expensive photography elective.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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