I love, love, LOVE this photo. A perfect example of how photography's frozen moment invites us to speculate about what happens next. Will she or won't she lift her leg (and her skirt)? Oh, my.
(I also sympathize with the grimaces of all the folks with tight hamstrings; utthita hasta padangusthasana is no fun for runners, even though we desperately need it).
image credit: "Outdoor yoga in Times Square" by Gus Powell, New Yorker, Aug. 24, 2009, p. 8.
I had the same reaction to this photo. The grimaces on the faces of the yogis, yes, but particularly the look on the face of the woman on the right. She's clearly a part of the yoga culture, and yet she's there and open-minded and willing, and she's thinking, WTF am I doing here? Can I possibly do that? I didn't see it so much as a reluctance to raise her skirts--although there is that--as of feeling that this is something that's just really foreign to her. BagNewsNotes guest column?
Posted by: Sara | 20 August 2009 at 08:43 PM
Sorry, I left a key word out: I meant to say "She's clearly NOT a part of the yoga culture..."
Posted by: Sara | 20 August 2009 at 08:44 PM