TOM CLARK: Birds and beasts of the world street with small deer in the Reichswald (the people of Athens love me)

Untitled [Dhaka]: photo by Md. Enamul Kabir, 21 July 2017

;]. Morocco 2016, portra 160. "Don't part with your illusions. When they have gone you may still exist, but you will have ceased to live." -- Mark Twain: photo by Przemek Strzelecki, 4 June 2017

Untitled [Chennai]: photo by Sasikumar Ramachandran, 22 July 2017

Untitled [Chennai]: photo by Sasikumar Ramachandran, 22 July 2017

Kolkata 2017: photo by Pau Buscató, 28 January 2017

[Kolkata]: photo by Muhammad Imam Hasan, 25 June 2017

Hatibagan, Kolkata | 2016 | by b i s w a j i t

Hatibagan, Kolkata | 2016: photo by biswajit kumar, 6 June 2016

Dhaka, Bangladesh: photo by Md. Enamul Kabir, 15 June 2017

Untitled [Dhaka]: photo by Md. Enamul Kabir, 14 July 2017

Untitled [Dhaka]: photo by Md. Enamul Kabir, 21 April 2017

Untitled [Chennai]: photo by Sasikumar Ramachandran, 16 July 2017

Peace [Dhaka]: photo by Md. Enamul Kabir, 30 April 2017

Untitled [Chennai]: photo by Sasikumar Ramachandran, 16 July 2017

Untitled [Chennai]: photo by Sasikumar Ramachandran, 15 July 2017

Untitled [Chennai]: photo by Sasikumar Ramachandran, 12 July 2017

Untitled [Dhaka]: photo by Munem Wasif, 14 April 2006

Untitled [Dhaka]: photo by Munem Wasif, 26 September 2007

Hong Kong: photo by tgnelson17, 11 May 2017

Untitled: photo by naye lee, 17 November 2013

The people of Athens love me | by gibsonstreet

The people of Athens love me.: photo by David Gibson, 27 March 2011

Sealdah Underpass, Kolkata | 2016 | by b i s w a j i t

Sealdah Underpass, Kolkata | 2017: photo by biswajit kumar, 5 February 2017

Manicktola, Kolkata | 2016 | by b i s w a j i t

Manicktola, Kolkata | 2016: photo by biswajit kumar, 30 December 2016

Ghalif Street, Kolkata | 2016 | by b i s w a j i t

Ghalif Street, Kolkata | 2017: photo by biswajit kumar, 30 March 2017

Benaras street, Kolkata | 2017 | by b i s w a j i t

Benaras Street, Kolkata | 2017: photo by biswajit kumar, 10 June 2017

Hazra, Kolkata | 2017 | by b i s w a j i t

Hazra, Kolkata | 2017: photo by biswajit kumar, 17 May 2017

Sovabazar [Kolkata] | 2017: photo by biswajit kumar, 28 April 2017

Kolkata 2017: photo by Pau Buscató, 28 January 2017

Jodhpur 2017: photo by Pau Buscató, 16 March 2017

;]. India 1988, zenith. Morocco 2016, portra 160. "Try and fail, but don't fail to try."-- Jared Leto: photo by Przemek Strzelecki, 10 July 2017

bambi. A small deer in the Reichswald at the Dutch-German border near Nijmegen.: photo by henkbraam, 9 August 2009

Kolkata 2017: photo by Pau Buscató, 19 February 2017

6 comments:

TC23 July 2017 at 22:42
Nat King Cole: Nature Boy

Miles Davis: Nature Boy
tpw24 July 2017 at 05:41
Nat King Cole just hypnotized me again. Such a strange and compelling artist.
TC24 July 2017 at 09:59
Terry,

Nat Cole, genius pure and simple.

Went to same HS (Wendell Phillips, Chicago) as Sam Cooke.

Growing up in the 1950s, it was impossible not to understand The King as the true sound of romance.

This remained true for some further decades in some places, esp. Taiwan, where his "Spanish" catalogue (i.e. Cuban tunes, orchestral arrangements done in Havana, final-studio'd in LA) was piped in via Macao -- in fact I believe that was the target audience.

Nat King Cole: Quizás, Quizás, Quizás (Osvaldo Farrés), from Cole Espanõl 1958, extracted in In The Mood for Love (Wong Kar-Wai)
TC24 July 2017 at 10:20
(Obviously Nature Boy isn't about living amidst large ambient populations of street creatures, though there were surely a lot of scrawny street cats and dogs in the teeming region of Bronzeville where Nat was raised -- maybe not unlike Kolkata or Dhaka in that respect, though sans some of the more exotic sorts of creatures, of course...)
manik sharma25 July 2017 at 11:10
Tom,

Such lovely photos. I have lived in both cities. In 2015, I was in Chennai when the floods happened. Six days into the blockade, when the rains finally stopped, we were out on the streets, roaming, looking to buy bottles of water. We were, quite literally, walking in it. Chennai, of course, is situated by the sea. But, ironically, we had none to drink. Because every purifier, every pump runs on electricity, we had none. I have never seen streets, with so many people carrying bottles of water around. Though we went to Chennai's beaches a lot, and ate a lot of ice cream, that stunning view of men and women walking around with backpacks filling them with bottles of mineral water, will never leave me. Kolkata, is perhaps, the most beautiful city in the country. Probably the one city, where life actually happens on the street and not inside homes.
TC25 July 2017 at 13:07
manik,

all I can say is !

That's because I had you in mind when making this post, and told myself I would not put up another until you had come. So, thank you, my friend.

There is, here where we are, such a conspicuous absence of the sort of at least approximately relaxed and surely everyday-familiar human/animal proximity and street interaction seen in these photos that it is impossible not at times to long (despite suspecting the complications) for such vivid signs of life in one's own comparatively life-deprived immediate environment.

As in, let us be surrounded by anything save machines and cars!

Saying that though, I can't help remembering a sweet young Indian PhD I happened to know all through his graduate years at UC (this some 15 years or so ago) who, once, discussing this issue of human/animal contact, suggested my idealistic notions might not survive the actual experience of living among free-ranging wild monkeys in an Indian city.

They are, he said, the tyrants of the town.

He went on to prove his point by revealing that the most traumatic experience of his childhood was having been bitten on the leg, in his family's garden, by a particularly obstreporous monkey.

Sunday, 23 July 2017

Birds and beasts of the world street with small deer in the Reichswald (the people of Athens love me)

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