Yoda

Archival 16x20 inch black-and-white fine art print on Epson Art Cotton Smooth 250 gram paper. NYC Village Halloween Parade street photography, Greenwich Village, 1982–86.

This grainy, black-and-white photograph captures a surreal and slightly eerie scene at the Parade. Emerging from the shadows on the left, a life-sized Yoda puppet from Star Wars is caught in a harsh strobe light — its weathered, wrinkled face gazing toward the viewer with a startlingly lifelike and somewhat haunting expression. To the right, the back of a person in a heavy, textured denim jacket fills the frame, creating a sense of being deep in a crowded space. The deep shadows and high-contrast lighting lend the image a candid, "paparazzi-style" quality.