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wDOWNTOWN Photo by Bill Luster "My assignment was 'Fourth and Ali,' an area I have passed hundreds of times. That's easy, I thought. I scouted for a few minutes, then 4 p.m. came. That's the fastest five minutes in photography. It was an interesting but tough exercise. I loved it." 4 00 TUE APR 03 PM LOUISVILLE I remembered to look at the clock at 4 p.m. on Tuesday, April 3. This time, I wouldn't wonder — I would know — what was going on in our world at this random hour. We had sent 10 photographers to 10 different locales across Louisville, instructing them to take pictures from 4 p.m. to 4:05 p.m. — and not a second longer. We wanted them to provide snapshots of life in the city on an ordinary weekday when so many of us are hunkered down in front of computer screens, in cubicles, in our heads, with our worlds narrowed to the few feet in front of our faces and oblivious to anything beyond the immediate. The idea amounted to an exercise in opening our eyes, to answer the question posed by the great Southern writer Walker Percy: What does one do with oneself at four o'clock? Percy lamented man's daily battle with ennui, with the malaise of everydayness that peaks on a weekday afternoon when it seems as if whatever's coming next will never get here. In the end, as you'll see in these images, our remarkable photographers discovered what happens when we're not there. This is what came next. — Kane Webb wCHICKASAW PARK Photo by John Nation "Friends Charles Bundrant, Gerald Edwards and Archie Shepard gathered around a picnic table that JCPS worker Bundrant, smoking a Black & Mild, called 'our office in Chickasaw Park.' Shepard proclaimed himself 'office president.' Then Ronald Holt rode up on a bike. He flashed his golden grill and flexed. 'I'm 66 years old and the number-one tennis player in Chicka- saw Park,' he said. 'You gotta eat right and stay in shape.'" y PLEASURE RIDGE PARK HIGH SCHOOL Photo by Tim Furnish "This was an interesting challenge because most of the students had gone home by 4 p.m. The principal said I could shoot as long as I did not include recognizable faces." 5.12 LOUISVILLE MAGAZINE [41]