Seattle, Washington and New York City
“Seattle Meets NYC for Coffee”
This double exposure was actually a sleight of hand planted by photographer Eric Henderson. “I had taught the kids in Seattle how to use the Brownie camera and later sent them a couple of cameras so they could shoot more, telling them, ‘They’re already loaded. All you have to do is shoot.’” What they didn’t know was that Eric had already taken the first shot with one of the cameras, thus setting the kids up for an “accidental” double exposure – the tracks of the 7 train lying in the middle of Seattle Washington. And, no, this was not a commercial. If you can understand Seattle as a coffee culture and Starbucks being everywhere, then you can understand how this would end up in the photo of a young person from Seattle. We’ll take that serendipity and run with it.
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