A silver gelatin photograph of a man leaning out of a window of a Georgetown building along M Street in Washington, DC. This photograph captured in September, 1999 was taken by Jim Epler in the summer in Washington, DC across a row of shops along M Street in Georgetown. It is cataloged under the terms street photography, people, cities, architecture and urban scenes in this photography database.
The image was exposed on 35mm Kodak Tri-X 400 black & white film stock using a Pentax Asahi Spotmatic II camera with a Asahi Pentax 55mm f/1.8 lens.
Photographer Comments: The man in the window was furiously motioning and yelling to someone on the street when I snapped this photograph. Unfortunately, I just missed his animated pointing as I tripped the shutter. Regardless, I still like this photograph because of the arched windows and the almost "Godfather-esque" feeling of the storefront. I've always been fondly intrigued by warehouses, freight trains and old factory buildings, probably because I spent a good deal of time as a boy at my Grandma's house which neighbored a feed mill in Mount Joy, Pennsylvania. I loved throwing a tennis ball against the side of the warehouse, walking around the different buildings and following the railroad tracks to a chocolate factory down the street. To this day these industrial elements fascinate me.
If not in Georgetown, this storefront could be in New York, Italy, France, San Francisco or any other large urban community. I take comfort in believing the same scene is staged hundreds if not thousands of times in cities around the world every day-- a person or persons leaning out a storefront window to communicate with others on the street below. The scene's universal properties are comforting.
Additionally, search phrases or terms that people actively seeking pictures on the Internet related to this particular topic might include the words factory, france, arched window, windows, sephora, street light, storefront, italian, washington DC, shop, arch, georgetown, mall, warehouse and store, so they are included on this details page as a way to improve the photograph's profile in searches and Web queries.
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