Blind

Photographers like to take pictures of the blind. Geoff Dyer wrote about this in The Ongoing Moment (a book that some love and some hate; I hated it initially, but now am not sure), which discussed Strand's most famous example from 1916 along with ones from Lewis Hine, Walker Evans, and Garry Winogrand

Don't ask me why; there's an easy answer and a hard answer, but neither is likely true. Maybe it's just because they don't complain (sacrilege!).

Near NYU, April 2008:


Notice the reflected passer-by in the headshop behind her.

7th and Bleeker, November 2007: