Actually, yes. Photographers would take pictures of people out in public and hand them a card where they could go to get their print. http://www.shadesofthedeparted.com/2009/03/friday-from-collectors-sidewalk.html
Out with friends. Girl wants a group photo, pushes button, and then looks down at the camera to see how it came out, just as it finishes auto-focusing and exposure-setting: Click! a photo of the sidewalk. So she does it again. And again. Three photos of the sidewalk. Got a passer-by to take it of all of us.
In the 80’s, I handed a viewfinder camera to an old neighbor to take a picture of me and my car. He held it down at waist level like an old box camera, and couldn’t see the image so he could snap the picture.
Templo S.U.D. over 8 years ago
Duh!
rpG Premium Member over 8 years ago
In the context of the 1950’s, what is a sidewalk photographer? Were there photographers on city sidewalks taking pictures of passersby for money?
tom over 8 years ago
Actually, yes. Photographers would take pictures of people out in public and hand them a card where they could go to get their print. http://www.shadesofthedeparted.com/2009/03/friday-from-collectors-sidewalk.html
steverinoCT over 8 years ago
Out with friends. Girl wants a group photo, pushes button, and then looks down at the camera to see how it came out, just as it finishes auto-focusing and exposure-setting: Click! a photo of the sidewalk. So she does it again. And again. Three photos of the sidewalk. Got a passer-by to take it of all of us.
grainpaw over 8 years ago
In the 80’s, I handed a viewfinder camera to an old neighbor to take a picture of me and my car. He held it down at waist level like an old box camera, and couldn’t see the image so he could snap the picture.
neverenoughgold over 8 years ago
What else?
Darryl Heine over 8 years ago
A sidewalk photographer could have taken video footage of a sidewalk for YouTube in current year times.
maybeinthenextworld over 8 years ago
damn your irrepressible charm, Charles.