{"id":1027,"date":"2014-10-29T08:42:54","date_gmt":"2014-10-29T15:42:54","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.timporter.com\/seconddraft\/?p=1027"},"modified":"2014-10-29T08:43:51","modified_gmt":"2014-10-29T15:43:51","slug":"photo-story-the-curtain","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.timporter.com\/seconddraft\/?p=1027","title":{"rendered":"Photo Story: The Curtain"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.timporter.com\/seconddraft\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/10\/Smileys_101114_056.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-1029\" src=\"http:\/\/www.timporter.com\/seconddraft\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/10\/Smileys_101114_056.jpg\" alt=\"Blonde in a bar with lipstick\" width=\"600\" height=\"490\" srcset=\"http:\/\/www.timporter.com\/seconddraft\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/10\/Smileys_101114_056.jpg 600w, http:\/\/www.timporter.com\/seconddraft\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/10\/Smileys_101114_056-300x245.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 600px) 100vw, 600px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>The camera is my curtain. I am behind it. On the other side, on the grand stage of the world, the theater of life plays without intermission. I wait, listening to the dialog and watching the players move through the certain. <strong>Then comes a moment and I open the curtain<\/strong>, quickly and with such delicacy that the actors and the audience don\u2019t recognize my presence. When the instant is gone, so am I, but I leave with the moment wrapped in my curtain.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Photography teaches me patience<\/strong>, me, someone who is anything but patient. The moment will arrive when it happens and if I am ready, if I am looking and listening, and if I have been able, through stillness or persistence, to remain close even as I become bored or nervous or frightened, then I will have a chance to make a picture.<\/p>\n<p><strong>\u00a0<\/strong>Without patience, I have no chance. Without waiting, good pictures don\u2019t happen \u2013 at least for me. Without the curtain, I am exposed and cannot wait. <strong>You see the circle now.<\/strong> The curtain protects. The protection comforts. The comfort makes me patient. The patience brings the photograph.<\/p>\n<p>Recently, I was in a bar in Bolinas. For a long time I just talked with the others who were there \u2013 with the bartender, with a woman who had brought home-made cheesecake, and with <strong>a pool-player who had one eye filled with blood<\/strong>, the consequence of a mountain bike mishap.<\/p>\n<p>The bartender invited me behind the bar. I faced a young blond woman, thin, animated and dressed in a spring party dress. She posed for the camera again and again.<strong> When she became bored, she stopped and slid a lipstick tube out from her purse.<\/strong> She lifted her gold iPhone and, using it as a mirror, refreshed her face.<\/p>\n<p><strong>\u00a0<\/strong>My waiting was over. 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