Snap Decisions

Snap DecisionsThe Young Man returning from lunch pauses at the window of a camera store and is caught up by the display. Stretched before him are examples of the precision workmanship evident in cameras today: the compact ruggedness of metal bodies sheathed in black, pebble-grained leather; the gleam of wide-eyed lenses; the glisten of polished or satin chrome; the knurled knobs, the assertive levers, the dials etched with numerals. He reflects upon what he would like to have photographed—the wo...