Elegant Nostalgia and Utter Loneliness: All Hail to Taxi Cabs!
source: http://disembedded.wordpress.com/2009/09/26/elegant-nostalgia-and-utter-loneliness-all-hail-...
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“All Hail to Taxi Cabs!” is a superb collection of beautiful photographs taken of taxi cabs from all around the world. From our own experiences as passengers riding in the cabs cruising around our towns and cities, many of the photographs of taxis presented here are both old and rare, and can elicit both feelings of nostalgic reminiscence and memories from earlier times in our lives.
But these remarkable photographs reflect a deeper emotional perspective, that of the often isolated life of the taxicab driver. “Are you talkin’ to me? Well, I’m the only one here,” said Travis Bickle in “Taxi Driver.” This last line has seldom ever been quoted, yet it stands as perhaps the truest line in the film. In a sense, taxi drivers represent people with desperate needs to make some kind of contact, to share or mimic the effortless social interactions they see all around them, but in which they can’t or don’t really participate. This feeling of utter loneliness is at the center of the film “Taxi Driver.” We have all felt as alone as Travis. Fortunately, most of us are better at dealing with it.
This piece includes a number of stunning, thought-provoking color photographs, as well as a remarkable slide show of additional photographs.
But these remarkable photographs reflect a deeper emotional perspective, that of the often isolated life of the taxicab driver. “Are you talkin’ to me? Well, I’m the only one here,” said Travis Bickle in “Taxi Driver.” This last line has seldom ever been quoted, yet it stands as perhaps the truest line in the film. In a sense, taxi drivers represent people with desperate needs to make some kind of contact, to share or mimic the effortless social interactions they see all around them, but in which they can’t or don’t really participate. This feeling of utter loneliness is at the center of the film “Taxi Driver.” We have all felt as alone as Travis. Fortunately, most of us are better at dealing with it.
This piece includes a number of stunning, thought-provoking color photographs, as well as a remarkable slide show of additional photographs.
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Hi wayseeker,
Thanks very much for your thoughtful comments.
My best wishes to you.
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What an original idea on a simple subject. I've always been enthralled by scenes of taxi cabs in New York City. I wonder what it would be like to drive one of these through that ridiculously heavy traffic. And the people you'd see! I think it must takes a certain type of person to be a New York taxi driver.
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