We Watch Them Go By – Miners, Mobsters, Masculinity and Marion Post Wolcott
It is the car. It must be the car. The casual posture of the men. The clothes. The high-waisted trousers, the brimmed hats. The building in the background, with its white timber slats. When I first studied this photograph by Marion Post Wolcott, I scribbled down that it reminded me of the key scene in the film Road to Perdition (Sam Mendes, 2002).
