A Doorway in Ghent...
...or thoughts suggested by a window display.
So there I was, imagining man’s best friend, standing in this tobacconist shop doorway in the Koornmarkt
area of Ghent, all decked out in a western shearling coat with a ten gallon hat, atop a horse singing
“Git along little doggies, oops, DOGIES, it’s your misfortune and none o’ my own…”
But then, the orchestra of the “Gray Matter Gramophone” swelled and the ol’ cowboy ballad
was replaced by Elmer Bernstein’s magnificent theme from “The Magnificent Seven.”
http://youtu.be/8XDB7GMnbUQ
Goodness, what COULD I have been smoking?
Well, I guess he was just tired of breathing cigarette smoke and needed to get some fresh air.
And, no, I just couldn't bring myself to Photoshop a ciggie dangling from his mouth - well, not this time ;-)
From an Ektachrome-64 transparency.
This image is available in archival gallery prints and as a custom printed Photo Note Card.
Photo + Layout ©1984/2012 Steve Ember
Oh, if you're too young to know what that "Magnificent Seven" reference is all about...
http://youtu.be/yQmpqvoEpws
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s. sabine krause 21/07/2012 18:17
is it the lone star state on his breast?!? gosh, those advertising boys know no pardon, do they? what started out as a woman's cigarette ("mild as may")* is now unscrupulously directed at the canine cowboy: "yee-haw, bitches, meet the magnificent malboro mutt!" i'm glad he hasn't lit one yet! ; ))))) priceless capture, steve! greetings, sabine. p.s.: that dog is one cool cucumber! ; )*thank you, wikipedia: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Marlboro_(cigarette)
Maiarisli 14/07/2012 17:14
sehr originell nostalgischa liaba gruass
FlugWerk 13/07/2012 15:00
With that dog at the door no way in...:-))) pretty picture. Gr. Tinaviola d 13/07/2012 9:37
Yul Brynner, Steve McQueen and Charles Bronson - even more magnificent than their surely magnificent companions. And the unforgettable music.All that set in "the country where the favour is..."
Those were the times! And who would pay attention to the fatal consequences of smoking?:) Certainly not these irresistably handsome tough guys!:)
Thanks for bringing back some memories - though very vague (before I was born) yet somehow vivid (the legend continued many years later)
Bw, Viola