![Brian Bird
“Old age pensioner in Surry Hills alley with stick”, August 1949
From Series 02: Sydney People & Streets, 1948-1950
[via the State Library of New South Wales]](http://25.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_m0t34eEmNC1qzhl9eo1_1280.jpg)
Brian Bird
“Old age pensioner in Surry Hills alley with stick”, August 1949
From Series 02: Sydney People & Streets, 1948-1950
[via the State Library of New South Wales]
"Nothing can be sadder or more profound than to see a thousand things for the first and last time. To journey is to be born and die each minute…All the elements of life are in constant flight from us, with darkness and clarity intermingled, the vision and the eclipse; we look and hasten, reaching out our hands to clutch; every happening is a bend in the road…and suddenly we have grown old. We have a sense of shock and gathering darkness; ahead is a black doorway; the life that bore us is a flagging horse, and a veiled stranger is waiting in the shadows to unharness it."
— Victor Hugo, Les Misérables
![David Moore
Traffic dodging, Piccadilly Circus, London I, 1953
Gelatin silver print
[From the Art Gallery of New South Wales]](http://24.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_m0730wtlFK1qzhl9eo1_1280.jpg)
Traffic dodging, Piccadilly Circus, London I, 1953
Gelatin silver print
[From the Art Gallery of New South Wales]
"We want to get there faster. Get where? Wherever we are not. But a human soul can only go as fast as a man can walk, they used to say. In that case, where are all the souls? Left behind. They wander here and there, slowly, dim lights flickering in the marshes at night, looking for us. But they’re not nearly fast enough, not for us, we’re way ahead of them, they’ll never catch up. That’s why we can go so fast: our souls don’t weigh us down."
— Margaret Atwood, “Faster”, from The Tent
1959 London
From Horvat: Fifty One Photographs in Black & White
![David Moore
Alexandria, Sydney, circa 1949
Gelatin silver print
[From the Art Gallery of New South Wales]](http://25.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_m0733yoPyf1qzhl9eo1_1280.jpg)
Sa svojim mislima / In Private Thoughts
Istria, 2002
From In Absentia
Naples, October 1943
From Robert Capa: The Definitive Collection
