typing an official letter
(Calcutta/kolkata, Feb. 1989 - scan of the print of an old slide)
The public writers, with their old typing machines, are they still working out of the post offices and other public buildings in India ? They were very useful to write, for instance, application letters for jobs etc… and this one seems so attentive, captivated by what he is doing – an expression that stroke me often in the government offices etc... The love of a job well done...
(Ideal subjects : they allowed me to take the photo, but carried on their business as if I was not there, maybe a very urgent matter : the « scribe » resuming his meticulous work, the customer, also more interested in the letter than by my presence – anecdotally, he later told me that he was a body builder working in one of the first gyms in Kolkata, when the fashion was starting to spread in Europe too – in America of course, it was already well established since many years).
typing an official letter
(Calcutta/kolkata, Feb. 1989 - scan of the print of an old slide)
The public writers, with their old typing machines, are they still working out of the post offices and other public buildings in India ? They were very useful to write, for instance, application letters for jobs etc… and this one seems so attentive, captivated by what he is doing – an expression that stroke me often in the government offices etc... The love of a job well done...
(Ideal subjects : they allowed me to take the photo, but carried on their business as if I was not there, maybe a very urgent matter : the « scribe » resuming his meticulous work, the customer, also more interested in the letter than by my presence – anecdotally, he later told me that he was a body builder working in one of the first gyms in Kolkata, when the fashion was starting to spread in Europe too – in America of course, it was already well established since many years).